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 ...
Within moments, word began to spread. The missile had struck the Chernobyl Museum, which had reopened to the public barely four weeks earlier. The weapon itself was almost grotesquely expensive. An ...
After the catastrophic accident in the nearby nuclear reactor, the city of Pripyat had to be completely evacuated. Some 50,000 people left their homes forever. DW visited the town with a former ...