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Ukrainians mark anniversary of Chernobyl disaster
Ukrainians on Friday lit candles and laid flowers to remember the victims of the world’s worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl 27 years ago, as engineers pressed on with efforts to construct a new shelter to permanently secure the stricken reactor. On April 26, 1986, an explosion during testing sent radioactive…
Journalist arrested in Belarus for publishing pictures of teddy bears
Press freedom publicity stunt leads to jail for website editor If it wasn’t so serious, it would be laughable. Belarusian security agents have arrested a website editor for publishing photographs of teddy bears, such as the one above. Anton Suryapin, who runs a site called Belarusian News Photos, carried the…
‘Better a dictator than gay’: Belarus leader
MINSK — The mercurial Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko lashed out Sunday at recent sanctions imposed by Europe over his rights record by saying he would rather be branded a dictator than be gay. Lukashenko said in impromptu remarks at a mass ski event that the foreign ministers of Poland and…
Feminist protesters ‘kidnapped, stripped’ by Belarus KGB
Three Ukrainian feminists who staged a topless protest mocking the Belarussian strongman were “kidnapped” by KGB security agents who forced them to strip naked in a forest and threatened to torch them, the group charged Tuesday. The three members of the radical Femen group had gone missing after their protest Monday outside the offices of the Belarussian…
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