Chernobyl anniversary in Russian press

["Tsurikov, Nick" <nick.tsurikov@iluka.com>]

Hello, Radsafers
For those who are interested in what Russian press writes about Chernobyl
anniversary:
This has been published in Russia yesterday (translated into English from
http://www.lenta.ru/russia/2000/04/26/chernobyl/
<http://www.lenta.ru/russia/2000/04/26/chernobyl/> ):
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300,000 people died due to the Chernobyl Accident
The accident at the Chernobyl NPP happened 14 years ago.  It resulted in the
irradiation of 3,200,000 people.
Nearly 300,000 people died from radiation sickness.  In accordance with
statement of the Minister for Emergencies Sergei Shoigu, during these 14
years 55,000 'liquidators' died and 150,000 were permanently disabled.
There were 860,000 'liquidators' all together, as reported by the 'Novosti'
News Agency.
Radioactive contamination has spread over 30% of the territory of Russia,
23% of the territory of Belarus, 18% - Ukraine, 4.8% - Finland and 2.4% -
Austria.
The meeting at the Mitinsk cemetery in Moscow commemorated 14-th anniversary
of the catastrophe.  Similar actions happened in Ukraine.
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I will try to find something else and let you know if any serious data were
available in the media.

Kind regards
Nick Tsurikov
Eneabba, Western Australia
http://www.eneabba.net/
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