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| | Environment News Service: Russian Earth Day a Pro-Democracy, Anti-Nuclear Force |
 | | One of the organizers, Vladimir Slivyak, director of the national anti-nuclear group EcoDefense, says the roundtable is a democratic activity to counter this month's takeover by the government of the last independent television station, NTV, and an independent newspaper. |
 | | Ecodefense, which started in 1990 in Kaliningrad, is organizing an anti-nuclear Earth Day activity there, also on Thursday, the 15th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl on April 26, 1986. |
 | | A concert and an exhibit of childrens' pictures will be held to remember the victims and to give greetings to survivors of the catastrophe, many of whom moved to Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea in western Russia because their homes were contaminated with radioactivity from the explosion and fire at Chernobyl. |
| www.ens-newswire.com /ens/apr2001/2001-04-24-04.asp (727 words) |
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