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UA.TV: Visit to the Chornobyl exclusion zone (VIDEO)

Nowadays more and more people come to the restricted area as tourists to see the ghost town of Prypyat and the territory around it being reclaimed by …
UA.TV

Hromadske: What it’s like to live and work at Chornobyl power plant

25-year-old Vadym Trofymenko has been working at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant for three years. He lives in the neighboring northern Ukrainian …
Hromadske International

Zelenskiy: Government must always speak frankly with people

Ukraine’s President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on April 26, the day when Ukraine commemorates the 33rd anniversary of the accident at Chornobyl …
Interfax-Ukraine

Reuters: Chornobyl comes back to life in Ukrainian computer game

A Ukrainian computer game that brings to life a town abandoned after the Chornobyl nuclear disaster may not sound like everyone’s idea of fun but has …
Reuters

RFE/RL: A Ukrainian town whose dreams died in Chornobyl’s fallout

ORBITA, Ukraine — The apocalyptic photographs of the abandoned town of Pripyat and its rusting amusement park, abandoned schools, and reforested …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

EBRD: Chornobyl’s New Safe Confinement project completes final commissioning test

The New Safe Confinement at Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant successfully completed its final commissioning test on April 25. Read more here.
UNIAN

RFE/RL: Belarusian opposition cancels annual Chornobyl march over demand to pay police

Belarusian opposition groups have cancelled an annual protest march in Minsk commemorating victims of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

UNIAN: Ukraine marks 33rd anniversary of Chornobyl tragedy

On April 26, 1986, there were two explosions followed up by a fire – these are the consequences of the events at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant …
UNIAN

UA.TV: Slavutych, Chornobyl (VIDEO)

The city of hope, an experimental lab of urban development, and the newest town in Ukraine. It is the second satellite-town of the Chornobyl nuclear …
UA.TV

The Guardian: Inside Chornobyl’s exclusion zone (PHOTOS)

The Chornobyl disaster in 1986 forced the evacuation of nearby Prypyat, home to 45,000 people. David McMillan has journeyed there 21 times since to …
The Guardian

112.ua: Ukraine’s ombudsman calls on MPs to adopt bill on compensations to Chornobyl victims

Ukrainian envoy for human rights Lyudmyla Denisova called on the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to adopt the bill on making the amendments to the valid law …
112.ua

Kate Brown: Chornobyl’s cover-up is warning for next nuclear age

In 1986, the Soviet minister of hydrometeorology, Yuri Izrael, had a regrettable decision to make. It was his job to track radioactivity blowing from …
Kate Brown

CNN: Photographs capture world inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

When photographer David McMillan first visited the city of Pripyat in 1994, he expected his movements to be restricted. Just eight years prior, a …
CNN

HBO releases trailer for ‘Chernobyl’ series (VIDEO)

U.S. television network HBO released a trailer for its upcoming miniseries “Chernobyl” on March 28. Depicting the catastrophic nuclear accident in …
Toma Istomina

UA.TV: Chornobyl without litter (VIDEO)

Since Prypiat became ghost town following the explosion of nuclear power plant in 1986, the surrounding territory is full of ruins and debris. But …
UA.TV

UNIAN: HBO announces premiere of ‘Chernobyl’ historical drama miniseries

HBO TV channel has announced the premiere of the “Chernobyl” miniseries telling about the events in Ukraine in 1986 and posted the first trailer on …
UNIAN

CNN: Enormous abandoned antenna hidden in forests near Chornobyl (PHOTOS)

The peaceful untouched forest north of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, is a perfect spot to enjoy the outdoors — save for one fact. It contains the …
CNN

The Guardian: Revisiting Chernobyl, ‘it is a huge cemetery of dreams’

The 1986 nuclear disaster blighted Ukraine and changed the world. Serhii Plokhy, who won the Baillie Gifford prize for his history of the tragedy, …
The Guardian
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