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Chornobyl Goes Solar
05.10.2018
Ukraine unveiled its first solar plant in Chornobyl. Just meters away from where a power station, now encased in a giant sarcophagus, caused the world’s worst nuclear disaster three decades ago.Built in a contaminated area, which remains largely uninhabitable and where visitors are accompanied by guides carrying radiation meters, 3,800 panels produce energy to power 2,000 apartments. “It’s not just another solar power plant,” Evhen Variagin, the chief executive of Solar Chernobyl LLC, told reporters. “It’s really hard to underestimate the ...The kremlin-driven Propaganda Network Has Been Exposed in Eastern Europe
02.09.2018
The russian government discreetly funded a group of seemingly independent news websites in Eastern Europe to pump out stories dictated to them by the kremlin, reported BuzzFeed News. The scheme has only come to light through Skype chats and documents obtained by BuzzFeed News, Estonian newspaper Postimees, and investigative journalism outlet Re:Baltica via freedom of information laws, as part of a criminal probe into the individual who was moscow’s man on the ground in Estonia. russian state media created secret companies (SPN ...Both German and Soviet sources assessed the UPA’s activities as an anti-German uprising
18.03.2018
A UPA leaflet calling to fight the Germans by all available means, June 1943. Photo: Provided by the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance.A joint informational project by NV, the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, the Center for the Study of the Liberation Movement, and KSD Publishing, aimed at debunking myths that exist in the collective memory regarding the activities of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).Myth: The UPA was created by the Nazi occupiers, and in close cooperation with them, it ...
