Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
AP Finds Chernobyl Contamination In Milk From Belarus
Associated Press reporters who visited the edge of the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Belarus say that milk from a dairy farm there contains levels of radioactive isotopes at least 10 times higher than the country’s food safety limits. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Obama: Russia Sanctions Must Remain Until Moscow Complies With Minsk Deal
U.S. President Barack Obama says he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agree that Ukraine-related sanctions targeting Russia should only be lifted if Moscow complies with a deal to end fighting between Kyiv’s forces and Russia-backed separatists. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Chernobyl’s Ring Of Fire: Signs Point To Rising Risk
Decades of extensive studies have led a leading Chernobyl researcher to warn that a bolt from the blue, or the strike of a match, could lead to forest fires that send clouds of toxic, radioactive fallout spewing into the skies above Europe. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia, In Bow To Kyiv’s New Leader, Suspends Debt Demands
Russia said it temporarily suspended its demand for full repayment of a $3-billion loan to Ukraine to give the new government in Kyiv time to decide what to do about it. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Guarding Against Chernobyl’s Radioactive Forest Fires
Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, Ukrainian firefighters remain on high alert to prevent another disaster. It’s their job to stop fires from breaking out in the contaminated forests around the decommissioned power plant. A major blaze could release even more radiation into the atmosphere than the nuclear accident itself....
Guarding Against Chernobyl’s Radioactive Forest Fires
Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, Ukrainian firefighters remain on high alert to prevent another disaster. It’s their job to stop fires from breaking out in the contaminated forests around the decommissioned power plant. A major blaze could release even more radiation into the atmosphere than the nuclear accident itself....
Soviet Media: Sanitizing Chernobyl
In the days, weeks and months after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, facts were hard to come by. Especially if you were watching Soviet media at the time. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
OSCE Concerned About New Ukraine Cinema Law
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic has warned that recent legislative steps in Ukraine could limit free media and the free flow of information. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Morning Vertical, April 22, 2016
Your daily roundup …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Cuts Main Interest Rate Amid Disinflation
Ukraine’s central bank has cut its main interest rate to 19 percent from 22 percent, citing a “significant easing in risks to price stability.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
