Ukraine, Belarus: Chernobyl · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

MoldovAnn attends the opening of a photo exhibition of Belarus-based American photographer Kristina Brendel, held at the Chernobyl Museum in Kyiv; she discovers that the Belarusian government's treatment of the Chernobyl catastrophe differs drastically from that of the Ukrainian government: “…there is total denial by the Belarussian government that there is any problem associated with Chornobyl – they deny contamination and in fact, President Lukashenko has started a campaign to open up the Exclusion Zone and repopulate that territory.”