From the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl to a deadly outbreak of anthrax in Yekaterinburg and coronavirus, there is a well-oiled tactic of obfuscation and deflection ...

In February 2025, a suspected Russian drone strike damaged the protective shell over Chernobyl and raised fresh fears about ...

A study of six Chernobyl particles found their nuclear fuel structures largely intact after 40 years, shedding light on ...

This concerns a payment of 2,595 hryvnias for people who permanently reside in legally designated zones of radioactive ...

35 years after the worst nuclear disaster in history, parts of Chernobyl are still too radioactive for people to go to.

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 ...

Four decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, researchers at Leibniz University Hannover and the Helmholtz-Zentrum ...

In October 2026, the pension for disability of Group III is 50% of the old-age pension, but the actual payment amount depends on insurance experience, earnings, employment, and the presence of a ...

Former CIA officer Dan Hoffman compares Russian secrecy surrounding a death by pneumonic plague to the Chernobyl response ...

Short film Behind captures some of the final images of Scotland’s abandoned Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow, filmed before demolition and linked to Scarlett Johansson's Under the Skin.

Russia plague outbreak fears are escalating in Siberia following the death of a young scientist, prompting a former CIA ...

Vladimir Putin faces compounding crises as a Siberian plague researcher's death adds to the Ukraine war toll and Russia's ...