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...hearings on the matter on Dec. 4 in response to complaints from journalists and media monitoring groups - to enforce guarantees of free expression. "Maybe we don't have censorship de jure, but it certainly exists de facto," says Andriy Shchevchenko, leader of the newly formed Independent Media Union. Serhiy Vasilyev, head of President Kuchma's Information Department, insisted the memos were nothing more than simple press releases. But some 500 journalists signed a manifesto in which they threatened to strike in protest against the temniki and in support of free-expression guarantees. "Ukraine is the most informationally open country," counters...
...West, so he has hard currency but nowhere to paint. To get studio space in Moscow on an official basis, you must belong to the Artists Union and do "real" aesthetic work. Some of the best-known figures in the Soviet avant-garde, like Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vasilyev, who share working space, are still officially registered as illustrators of children's books...
There were no casualties, Vasilyev told an interviewer for Izvestiya, because workers spotted dangerous splitting in the dam and managed to evacuate the immediately threatened area in tune. Nonetheless, he conceded that the accident had serious environmental consequences. Nearly 6 million cu. yds. of thick brine spilled into the Dniester, spreading pollution almost all the way to the Black Sea port of Odessa, 360 miles to the southeast...
Normally the purest river in the European part of the Soviet Union, the Dniester became "brinier than the saltiest sea water," in Vasilyev's words. Containing as much as 10 oz. of salt for every quart, the burning brew killed some 2,000 tons of fish, destroyed an unknown quantity of aquatic plant life on which fish thrive, and forced officials to cut off water temporarily to numerous communities that depend on the Dniester, including the major cities of Odessa and Kishinev. To make up for the lost water, officials scurried to drill wells and divert streams and lakes...
...spill has created an enormous cleanup problem. Millions of tons of salt settled to the bottom of a large reservoir behind the Novodnestrovsk Dam, 300 miles downriver from the accident. Vasilyev said, however, that the salt was gradually being flushed out by mixing it with fresh water, so that the river might be restored to its old purity in a few months. Still, even if the effort is completely successful, there may be long-term repercussions, political as well as environmental. Vasilyev bluntly accused officials, presumably those in charge of designing and managing the potash plant, of ignoring two warnings...