Countries:
Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
Topics:
Disaster, Environment, Governance, Health, History, Human Rights, Humanitarian, Protest

Window on Eurasia writes about “Chernobyl's other victims” - “the thousands of people who exposed themselves to extraordinarily high levels of radiation while taking part in the clean up” and who now “find themselves not only sick as a result but largely forgotten by the successor governments to the regime which ordered them there without the protective gear they needed.”

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