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Nevertheless, ensuring a stable and prosperous Russia is of vital interest to the whole world. The republics have more than 2 million soldiers, a score of Chernobyl clones, the potential to flood Poland and Germany with hundreds of thousands of refugees -- and to become a big market and political partner if things work out right. But with recession gripping the West, generosity comes hard, especially when donors fear that Russia's economic chaos will simply swallow up limitless funds...
...often paralyzed economic reform. Because Russia cut off fuel supplies for much of the summer, reserves in Lithuania have run alarmingly low. The country also relies on the dangerously designed Ignalina nuclear-power plant for virtually all its electrical energy; several minor accidents have sparked fears of another Chernobyl. Angered by rising prices and political gridlock, voters were ready to give another chance to Algirdas Brazauskas, the Communist Party chief who broke with Moscow in 1989 and supported independence...
Ukraine faces a number of environmental problems in addition to the much-publicized Chernobyl meltdown, a high-ranking Ukrainian official said yesterday at a Ukrainian Research Institute seminar...
...Aside from Chernobyl, our first priority is drinking water,'' 80 percent of which is polluted, he said...
...most disturbing predictions following the near meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986, was that cancer cases would eventually begin to rise in areas affected by fallout from the accident. What no one suspected was that it would happen so soon, or that many of the first victims would be children. Two reports in Nature, one by the World Health Organization and one by health officials in Belarus, the ex-Soviet republic that was immediately downwind from Chernobyl on that fateful day, indicate that childhood thyroid cancer has skyrocketed from an average of four cases...