Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Chernobyl 30 years on: The EU’s response
Written by Philippe Perchoc, © Photosmart / Fotolia In the early hours of 26 April 1986, a test on the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant resulted in a massive energy surge, which led to the biggest nuclear accident in history. Some 600 000 men participated in the containment operations, putting their lives at risk, and around...
Here’s How to Make Ukraine’s Reforms Irreversible
We live in a time of transformations: today, we decide which Ukraine our children will live in tomorrow. But a new Ukraine will be hard to achieve unless citizens with no connections to the old system take action and begin controlling the government and thinking long-term.In 2013, Ukrainians protested to demonstrate that there was no way back to...
At Chernobyl and Fukushima, radioactivity has seriously harmed wildlife
The largest nuclear disaster in history occurred 30 years ago at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what was then the Soviet Union. The meltdown, explosions and nuclear fire that burned for 10 days injected enormous quantities of radioactivity into the atmosphere and contaminated vast areas of Europe and Eurasia. The International Atomic Energy...
Forget Fukushima: Chernobyl still holds record as worst nuclear accident for public health
The 1986 Chernobyl and 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accidents both share the notorious distinction of attaining the highest accident rating on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) scale of nuclear accidents. No other reactor incident has ever received this Level 7 “major accident” designation in the history of nuclear power....
Child Survivor of the Holocaust in Poland and Ukraine tells the story. Film screening and discussion. May 18, 18:30
As a little boy, Shimon Redlich survived the Holocaust in Poland under Nazi German occupation after being rescued by a Ukrainian and a Polish family. He returns to the places of his childhood to re-connect with this past, to understand what the Holocaust meant for those communities and how it is remembered. A film screening, followed by a...
The shadow of Chornobyl. Ukraine thirty years after the disaster
The consequences of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster are still a permanent element of the economic, environmental and social situation of Ukraine. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
From fiction to gallows humour – how Chernobyl survivors are coping with trauma
It’s been exactly 30 years since the world’s worst nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine. Yet the trauma is still fresh. Exactly how the survivors handle this trauma has been the subject of a lot of psychological research – and it has identified a range of sometimes surprising defence mechanisms....
Violent Protests in Moldova
Anti-government demonstrations take a turn for the worse as many police injured. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukrainian court quashes rigged conviction of famous musician but leaves him in prison
It should have been victory against a terrible miscarriage of justice. Instead the Kyiv Court of Appeal’s ruling on April 20 has caused bemusement. The convictions against Ihor Zavadsky, a world-renowned accordionist and two other men were quashed, however Zavadsky remains in detention over four years after his original arrest on fabricated...
Why Has a Former Soviet Dissident Gone on Hunger-Strike in Britain?
My British friends are puzzled: why should one weaken oneself? Why jeopardize one’s already very poor health? Can’t things be resolved in court? No, says Vladimir Bukovsky, a man of outstanding courage and integrity, who has devoted his life to the struggle with the Soviet regime …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
