Russia: “Chernobyl’s Other Victims” · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

Window on Eurasia writes about “Chernobyl's other victims” – “the thousands of people who exposed themselves to extraordinarily high levels of radiation while taking part in the clean up” and who now “find themselves not only sick as a result but largely forgotten by the successor governments to the regime which ordered them there without the protective gear they needed.”