30 April 2001 Fifteen years on, Chernobyl still sparks protests. MINSK, Belarus–People in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia on 26 April marked the grim anniversary of the 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in northern Ukraine. In Belarus, approximately 5,000 people marched along Minsk’s main thoroughfare, despite the authorities’ ban on the demonstration, and smaller unauthorized rallies took place […]
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