30 July, Minsk /BELTA correspondent/. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed Decree No. 395 "On awarding the Order of Mother to large families" on 29 July, BELTA was informed by the press service of the Belarusian leader. The awards were presented to 18 women from Vitebsk, Gomel and Grodno regions. For giving birth to and raising five or more children, the Order of Mother was awarded to Tatiana Loginova, a nurse at the Bogushevsk Central District Hospital of the "Sennenskaya Central District Hospital" healthcare institution; Pelageya Doronina, a housewife from the village of Palminka, Gorodok district; Elena Komarova, a housewife from the Central district of Gomel; Anna Prikhodko, an operator of a semi-finished product manufacturing machine at OJSC "Agrokombinat "Yuzhny" in Gomel; Oksana Radyuk, an employee of the state educational institution "Dvoretskaya Secondary School of Dyatlovo District"; Galina Smolenskaya, a foster mother at the education department of the Shchuchin District Executive Committee, and others. -0-

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