Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
Solar power to rise from Chernobyl’s nuclear ashes
Chinese companies plan to spend $1bn building a giant solar farm on land contaminated by the nuclear disaster in Ukraine, reports Climate News NetworkIt was the worst nuclear accident in history, directly causing the deaths of 50 people, with at least an additional 4,000 fatalities believed to be caused by exposure to radiation.The 1986 explosion...
Explainer: what is in the Trump-Russia dossier John McCain passed to the FBI?
The dossier includes lurid details from Trump’s 2013 visit to Moscow and claims there’s ‘extensive conspiracy’ his team and the Kremlin – is it true?John McCain passes dossier alleging secret Trump-Russia contacts to FBIWhat does the dossier which John McCain passed to FBI chief James Comey say? Related: John McCain passes...
Think reporting on Trump is hard? Try being a journalist in Donetsk
When war came to my city in eastern Ukraine, it was hard – but vital – for people like me to stay objectiveWhen I started working as a journalist in my native city of Donetsk I never imagined that war would come to town, until the day it did. In the spring of 2014 tanks and pro-Russia separatists showed up on the streets of the city, which was...
Alexander Chekmenev’s Ukrainian passport applicants – in pictures
After the fall of the Soviet Union, all Ukrainians had to get a new passport – and Alexander Chekmenev was on hand to take their photos. The snatched extra shots he took are remarkable in their honesty and tendernessPassport to eternity: photographing the forgotten elderly of Ukraine… …read more Source: The...
Passport to eternity: photographing the forgotten elderly of Ukraine
Alexander Chekmenev was tasked with making new passport photos in eastern Ukraine – and ended up with a powerfully humane portrait series. As the images are published 20 years later, he explains why old people deserve better careAlexander Chekmenev’s Ukrainian passport applicants – in picturesTimes were tumultuous in post-Soviet eastern...
‘We got Christmas back’: readers mark 25 years since fall of Soviet Union
Whether it was arrival of capitalism, social instability or denim, monumental changes followed Gorbachev’s resignation in 1991After years of food shortages, rising nationalist movements and an attempted coup, Mikhail Gorbachev, the president of the Soviet Union, resigned on Christmas Day 1991. His resignation 25 years ago was the final nail...
Group allegedly behind DNC hack targeted Ukraine, report finds
CrowdStrike says malware implant was used to track movements of artillery units, adding to suspicions Russia is involvedA new report suggests the same hacking group believed to have hacked the Democrats during the recent presidential election also targeted Ukrainian artillery units over a two-year period, that if confirmed would add to suspicions...
Stolen masterpiece paintings returned to Italy from Ukraine
Italian culture minister travels to Kiev to retrieve works by Rubens, Tintoretto and Mantegna taken from Verona art museumSeventeen masterpieces valued at €17m were returned to Italy from Ukraine on Wednesday after being stolen by masked, armed robbers from a Verona art museum last year.Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini, who travelled...
US blacklists more Russian businessmen and companies over Crimea
Sanctions against individuals, companies and government enterprises come as Donald Trump, who has praised Vladimir Putin, prepares to take officeThe United States has blacklisted seven Russian businessmen and eight companies and government enterprises over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the conflict in Ukraine, the US treasury said in a...
Ukraine will not join EU, Dutch are promised in effort to save treaty
EU leaders offer guarantees to voters in the Netherlands after they rejected trade and political deal agreed by other member statesEU leaders have attempted to rescue a landmark treaty with Ukraine, which was rejected by Dutch voters, plunging ties with Europe’s eastern neighbour into uncertainty.In a bid to assuage Dutch concerns, European...
