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The President of Romania Traian Basescu announced yesterday while at the Bookfest that he was going to award the Star of Romania to the 3 Romanian heroes Andrei Ivantoc, Tudor Petrov Popa and Alexandru Lesco.

It is to be reminded that in 1994 the Patriarch of Romania awarded the 3 Romanian heroes at the Dnister River with the Patriarchal Cross, the highest distinction the Romanian Orthodox Church as got for the non-clergy. The Romanian Patriarch is waiting for the three to come to Bucharest for blessing.

The organizations of former political detainees and of the anti-Communists in 1989-1990 as well as more than 100 Romanian personalities have joined the award idea. (...) (D.E.)

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