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Chornobyl / Chernobyl
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Ukraine and Germany to jointly build wind farm in Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
Ukraine and Germany have signed a memorandum on the joint construction of a wind park in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone.
Europe’s Amazonia will be lost if Poland, Ukraine and Belarus implement E40 waterway
[editorial]What’s wrong with the plans of Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus to create a 2352-kilometer-long waterway linking the Baltic…
Chernobyl: a disaster that still overwhelms us all
On my first visit, I was accompanied by the Ukrainian author and doctor Yuriy Shcherbak. In his documentary…
10 things the KGB didn’t want you to know about Chernobyl
At the end of April, we observed the 35th anniversary of the event that has changed the world,…
Kremlin knew Chornobyl was an accident waiting to happen 3 years before 1986 disaster
The Soviet government knew that the Chornobyl atomic power plant was an accident waiting to happen at least…
Ukrainian motion designer’s millennial-friendly videos of Chornobyl disaster’s secret history go viral
[editorial]After the Euromaidan revolution, Ukraine embarked on a long-awaited journey to open its KGB archives, finally shedding light…
Chornobyl Deadly Legacy: 35 years on
In 1986, the Ukrainian World Congress and its member organizations helped expose the Soviet cover up and denial…
Ukraine declassifies 190 more KGB documents on Chornobyl disaster
In a new book, The Chernobyl Dossier of the KGB: From Construction to the Accident (in Ukrainian), Kyiv’s…
The mystery of Chornobyl’s wild horses
Since the accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, 34 years have passed. This accident, the…
The stubborn Ukrainian tradition behind forest fires in Chornobyl
The spring and fall wildfires are not unusual in Ukraine after dry winters and hot summers, though this…
National Presidential Orchestra pays moving tribute to Ukrainian soldiers, medics & firefighters (video)
Members of the National Presidential Orchestra have recorded Ave Maria, a moving prayer thanking medical workers, soldiers and…
Chornobyl wildfires that raged for ten days near nuclear facilities extinguished, no radiation threat reported
This spring’s first reports on forest blazes raging in the uninhabited exclusion zone near the Chornobyl NPP emerged…
Putin’s nuclear arms blackmail caused a ‘mini-Chornobyl’
When the Chornobyl nuclear accident took place in 1986, the behavior of the Soviet powers that be was…
The Chornobyl disaster and the power of story-telling: Russian propaganda around HBO miniseries
The show caused a variety of reactions, from approval and enthusiastic comments on the one hand to criticism about how the…
Chornobyl: Reality and fiction in the popular miniseries, according to eyewitnesses
The miniseries is being watched in Ukraine with particular attention, as there are millions of people who have…
Restoring the equilibrium: wild nature is making a comeback at the Chernobyl exclusion zone
Pictures of these wild animals were taken by hidden cameras which react to motion. In the exclusion zone,…
Chornobyl nuclear disaster was tragedy in the making, declassified KGB files show
[quote]Declassified KGB documents reveal that the Chornobyl catastrophe was no accident: it was a tragedy, years in the…
Nature takes over Ukraine’s Chornobyl exclusion zone
After the explosion at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the first thing to fall under the radioactive cloud…
Meet the Ukrainians who returned to live in Chornobyl
On 26 April 1986, the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s fourth reactor exploded. The radioactivity affected the population, plants,…
Rare animal and bird species return to Chornobyl after 30 years of abandonment
The tragedy on Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 forced 90,000 people to leave their homes because of…