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April 27 marked the 35th anniversary of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear station, located in Ukraine. In 1986, a meltdown there led to an explosion that spread radioactive material across Europe, resulting in the worst nuclear accident in history. Thousands were evacuated from towns and villages in the vicinity of the meltdown, and a 30 km exclusion zone was set up around the facility. Today, the ruins of the Soviet reactor rest under a huge metal sarcophagus" designed to prevent further leakage of radioactive material.Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency marked the eve of the anniversary in part with an article citing a Russian academic who claimed that HBO’s critically-acclaimed miniseries on the disaster was part of running war against Russia. The article quoted Leonid Bolshov
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