Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has signed decree No.275 on granting Belarusian citizenship to 401 people, including 86 underage ones, the president's press service told BelTA. As many as 341 Ukrainians will receive Belarusian passports.
Those are primarily individuals who came to Belarus from Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast and Lugansk Oblast. The number includes 39 families.
Belarusian citizenship was also granted to 60 foreigners, who had come from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Russia, Moldova, Lithuania, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan.
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