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Ukraine commemorates Chornobyl nuclear tragedy amid ongoing Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory states that 500,000 people died from radiation exposure in the aftermath of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster.

byVira Kravchuk

Ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear power station. Photo: belaruspartisan.org

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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Chornobyl nuclear disaster was tragedy in the making, declassified KGB files show

According to Andriy Kohut, the entire procedure was handled by the Office of State Archives. They initiated the…

byRadio Liberty

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Fears of radioactive disaster as Russian proxies plan to flood nuclear test site in Donbas

Nuclear explosions in Ukraine In total, the USSR conducted 239 peaceful nuclear explosions on its territory during in 1965–1988 under…

byYuri Zoria

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Russia’s nuclear threats and spy games

Last week it was reported that three Russians were arrested on espionage charges. Two Russian citizens and one naturalized US…

byKseniya Kirillova

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Chornobyl destroyed the Soviet Union

Thirty years ago this week, the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident set in train the forces that destroyed…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukraine’s Chornobyl, like Russia’s Chelyabinsk before it: Symbols of untenable Soviet moral decay

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) Nuclear Power Plant disaster. On April 25, 1986, workers…

byPaula Chertok