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Forty years after Chernobyl, Moscow faces another information battle over a suspected case of pneumonic plague.

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Thirty-nine years ago, a series of traumatic events in everyday life filled the country with fear. But thanks to the ...

On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant experienced a catastrophic explosion, leading to the ...

After the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, scientists explored using sunflowers for radioactive cleanup. Sunflowers ...

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The Italian city of Siena once again transforms into a major contemporary photography festival with leading photojournalists including Cinzia Canneri, Pierpaolo Mittica and Jasper Doest exhibiting ...

BBC World Service podcast about history that takes you inside big moments from the past through first-hand testimony and archive. Each weekday, in around nine minutes, we revisit one moment that ...

HBO's Chernobyl proved true terror doesn't need a monster, just an invisible threat, and the devastating cost of human error.

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