As radiation spread across Europe in April 1986, so did the truth about a political system built on silence. Four decades on, RFI spoke to history and politics professor Oleg Kobtzeff about how the ...
IN the dead of night 40 years ago on April 26, 1986, nothing seemed out of the ordinary at the now abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Engineers were carrying out safety tests on Reactor 4 – ...
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Gorbachev’s reforms opened the door to Soviet collapse
The Soviet Union’s sudden collapse shocked the world because few expected one of the most powerful empires on Earth to ...
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, lies along the Dnieper River in southeastern Ukraine. After Russian forces brutally invaded Ukraine six months ago, they gained control of the ...
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