Word: kiev
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Gorbachev's glasnost, though, was put to the test in April, when the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at Chernobyl, a then little-known town north of Kiev. At first the Soviet leader abandoned his open style. He dropped out of sight and did not comment publicly on the disaster for 18 days. When he finally reappeared, Gorbachev denounced the West for producing a "mountain of lies" about the accident. But soon glasnost was back; officials and the press began providing information on the accident to a degree unprecedented for Soviet journalism. Criticism diminished, and near...
...lives. The epidemic of drugs became more sobering than ever, as the young turned to an addictive and unusually noxious boiled-down form of cocaine known as crack. One atomic nightmare came true and others were awakened when a Soviet atomic power reactor at Chernobyl, 80 miles north of Kiev, exploded and then kept burning for several days, a man-made disaster that could cause as many as 5,000 premature deaths by radiation-induced cancer. It was history's worst nuclear accident...
...Chernobyl station was started in the mid-1970s about 80 miles north of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on the banks of the Pripyat River...
Oleinik noted that the Pripyat is the largest tributary of the Dnieper River, which in turn is the region's major waterway and the source of much of Kiev's drinking water...
...last week's news conference said that 135,000 people have been evacuated from an area of more than 300 sq. mi. around the plant. Previous / estimates were 100,000. The evacuees will eventually be housed in 52 villages, most of them in the Makarov district, west of Kiev. More than 2,000 new homes have been occupied, and 5,000 more are planned. The houses are being donated to the people, and sponsoring agencies, like local farm collectives, are giving them food and clothing. The evacuees were forced to abandon their contaminated belongings when they fled to safety...