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	History of Ukraine - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Mass arrests of the hierarchy and clergy of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church culminated in the liquidation of the church in 1930.
		Ukraine in World War II Following the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, in September 1939, German and Soviet troops divided the territory of Poland, including Galicia with its Ukrainian population.
		The history of Ukraine between 1991 and 2004 is marked by the presidencies of Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/History_of_Ukraine (4175 words)

	Ukraine - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Drained by the Dnieper, the Dniester, the Buh, and the Donets rivers, Ukraine consists largely of fertile steppes, extending from the Carpathians and the Volhynian-Podolian uplands in the west to the Donets Ridge in the southeast.
		Ukraine's steppe is one of the chief wheat-producing regions of Europe, and the area was long known as the "breadbasket of the Soviet Union." Other major crops include corn, rye, barley, potatoes, sugar beets, sunflowers, and flax.
		Ukraine had flourished under Lithuanian rule, and its language became that of the state; but after the organic union of Poland and Lithuania in 1569, Ukraine came under Polish rule, enserfment of the Ukrainian peasants proceeded apace, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church suffered persecution.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ukraine.html (3176 words)

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		Poor water quality is associated with outbreaks of cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and hepatitis A.}{\i\fs22 }{\fs22 There are a number of regions valued for their biodiversity, especially in}{\i\fs22 }{\fs22 the upper tributaries of the forested regions of Belarus and wetland regions throughout the drainage area.
		Of part i cular note are the two reactors still operating at Chernobyl on the Pripyat River, and an additional six reactors in the Zaporozhskaya atomic energy station on the mid reaches of the Dnieper itself.
		Ukraine has developed a National Dnieper River Basin Program, and all three Dnieper nations have demonstrated strong commitment to strengthening international cooperation in the management of the regional basin.
	www.gefweb.org /WPROGRAM/iw_reg.doc (7440 words)

	Ukraine in the 20th Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A famine raged through the Ukraine in 1932-33 as a result of the confiscation of the peasants farms and farm profits, leading to the death of between 7 to 10 million people.
		The town of Pripyat in Ukraine was the site of the Chernobyl accident on April 26, 1986, when a nuclear powerplant experienced a meltdown and explosion.
		The countries of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine are still burdened today with the continuing and substantial costs for decontamination and health care due to the long term effects of radiation.
	www.personal.psu.edu /nar135/20.htm (887 words)

	Chernboyl Diary, 1996
		Pripyat could be the end of the beginning of the world--perhaps it will be yet.
		Pripyat is the end of the world, it is the apocalypse.
		The question is whether Pripyat will be merely the end of the Soviet Union and an economic and health burden on Ukraine, Belarus, and even Russia for generations to come, or whether it must be repeated, again and again, until our Earth's powers recognize that there is no escape from a Chernobyl.
	www.nirs.org /mononline/worldend.htm (2875 words)

	History of Ukraine
		The first identifiable groups to populate what is now Ukraine were the Neolithic people of the Trypillian culture, followed by the Iranians (Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmatians), and Goths, among other nomadic peoples who arrived throughout the first millennium BC.
		Although Christianity had made inroads into Ukraine before the first ecumenical council, the Council of Nicea (particularly along the Black Sea coast) and, in Western Ukraine during the time of empire of Great Moravia, the formal governmental acceptance of Christianity in Rus' occurred at the Baptism of Kiev in 988.
		Ukraine declared itself an independent state on August 24, 1991, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and was a founding member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
	www.stranslation.com /Ukrainian_Translation/history_of_ukraine.htm (2199 words)

	Transboundary wetlands in the Polesie region -- Belarus, Poland, Ukraine
		The Polesie region is shared among Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine - the Pripyat river forms its central artery, flowing eastwards to enter the Dniepr soon after crossing the Ukrainian border near ill-starred Tchernobyl.
		The floodplains of the Pripyat and its tributaries hold the largest part of the remaining population of the aquatic warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola), a small, globally threatened, wetland songbird.
		Pripyat floodplain with oak forests and wet meadows.
	www.ramsar.org /mtg/mtg_belarus_conference_polesie1.htm (1001 words)

	CNN.com - Pripyat: The city where time stands still - December 15, 2000
		PRIPYAT, Ukraine (CNN) -- The dead city of Pripyat is one lasting legacy of Chernobyl that will forever be a symbol of the world's worst civilian nuclear disaster.
		Pripyat was once home to 45,000 people before it became enveloped in radioactive dust.
		She said that though it is safe to be in the open air in Pripyat, it is inside the houses that the danger lies.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/12/15/chernobyl.ghosttown (467 words)

	The 20th Century in Ukraine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		His first cap for Ukraine was earned at the age of 19 years and 177 days, in a 0-4 loss to Croatia on 25 March, 1995 at Zagreb.
		Health officials have predicted that over the next 70 years there will be a 2% increase in cancer rates in much of the population which was exposed to the 5–12 (depending on source) EBq of radioactive contamination released from the reactor.
		The initial evidence in other countries that a major exhaust of radioactive material had occurred came not from Soviet sources, but from Sweden, where on April 27 workers at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant (approximately 1100 km from the Chernobyl site) were found to have radioactive particles on their clothes.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/t/d/tdd132/20thCentury.htm (1174 words)

	Kiev Ukraine News Blog
		Ukraine is facing an uphill struggle to maintain a clear separation between business and politics and ensure security of domestic and international investment.
		Viktor Yushchenko was born in 1954 in the Sumy region of northeastern Ukraine.
		Their mission is to remodel Ukraine for the better, and with over 18,000 state officials from the old regime sacked in the first weeks of the new administration, between February and April, there is much to assess.
	blog.kievukraine.info /2005_06_01_kievukrainenewsblog_archive.html (16107 words)

	Prypiat, Ukraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prypiat (Ukrainian: При́п'ять, Pryp”iat’; Russian: При́пять, Pripyat; 51°24′20″N, 30°03′25″E) is an abandoned city in zone of alienation in northern Ukraine, Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus.
		Site about Pripyat created by its former residents.
		Pripyat Ghost Town (1970-1986): a tale by Elena Filatova with photos
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pripyat,_Ukraine (656 words)

	Chernobyl Still a Menace 20 Years After Meltdown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It was organized by Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, the European Commission, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Health Organization, the UN Development Programme, the Council of Europe, the European Center of Technological Safety, Ukraine 3000, the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety of France, and GRS of Germany.
		Mikhail Gorbachev was general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on April 26, 1986 when an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine resulted in a meltdown of the reactor core that spread radiation far and wide.
		Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States Oleh Shamshur today emphasized the urgent necessity to finalize preparations for creation of the new sarcophagus.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/apr2006/2006-04-26-04.asp (1680 words)

	Chernobyl tourists must tread carefully \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		A Ferris wheel in Pripyat, Ukraine, has been idled since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986.
		PRIPYAT, Ukraine – Tourists are now participating in what may be the strangest vacation excursion available in the former Soviet sphere: packaged tours of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, scene of the worst civilian disaster of the nuclear age.
		Fine views of Pripyat are available from among these misplaced trees, including one in the direction of the reactor that reveals an empty clinic bearing an enormous sign.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050615/news_1n15chern.html (911 words)

	Timeline Ukraine
		Ukraine and Russia acknowledged that an errant missile was the probable cause on Oct 12.
		Ukraine refused to pay and the company seized 2 Ruslan transport planes, one in Canada and one in Brussels.
		Ukraine's opposition called for a new round of presidential elections to resolve the political crisis gripping the nation.
	timelines.ws /countries/UKRAINE.HTML (8950 words)

	Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation - USA, Inc. History of Ukraine
		Ukraine fell under the control of the Austrians in the extreme west (Galacia) and of the Russians elsewhere.
		to retrieve "all of Russia," invaded Ukraine from the south.
		The Soviet Union formally ceased to exist in December 25, 1991, and with this Ukraine's independence was officially recognized
	www.ukrainiangenocide.com /dhistory.html (1353 words)

	Central Europe Review - Ghost Town: Chernobyl Twelve Years On
		We had our own geiger-counter and were wearing dosimeters; additionaly we were scanned whenever we returned from the Ukraine or Belorussia to see how much radiation we had really absorbed.
		NG: I got my information about Pripyat and the exclusion zone from some books and articles I read before my first visit there, so I had quite detailed ideas of the area that turned out to be close to reality.
		But seeing the dramatic energy situation in the Ukraine meaning that in the smaller villages you will not have any power during the night, especially in winter.
	www.ce-review.org /99/9/kinoeye9_horton1.html (2227 words)

	ABC News: Greenpeace: Chernobyl Toll May Top 90,000
		In this 1976 photo provided by the Shashenok family, Volodymyr Shashenok is seen with his son Ruslan in Pripyat, Ukraine.
		By MARA D. KIEV, Ukraine Apr 18, 2006 (AP)— Greenpeace said Tuesday in a new report that more than 90,000 people were likely to die of cancers caused by radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, countering a United Nations report that predicted the death toll would be around 4,000.
		The fallout was particularly severe in northern reaches of Ukraine, western Russia and Belarus.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1854153 (447 words)

	chernobyl
		When Ukraine was a republic in the Soviet Union, being Ukrainian in America meant being anonymous.
		What I could not have predicted was that Ukraine would become independent – in other words, a really real place.
		During Ukraine's parliamentary elections in 1998, the regime discovered defamation lawsuits as a way to punish opposition media and several prominent newspapers were shut down under the weight of huge damage awards.
	www.therebyhangsatale.com /id19.html (1756 words)

	:: Pripyat: City of the Future ::
		In Soviet Ukraine, Pripyat was known as the 'city of the future'.
		The danger is kept a secret from the population of Pripyat who go about their business as usual, three kilometers away.
		The 50,000 inhabitants of Pripyat are eventually evacuated over the course of a single day.
	www.atomictv.com /pripyat.html (175 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Chernobyl, Ukraine
		The surrounding agricultural land has been abandoned, and the two nearby towns (Pripyat to the north and Chernobyl to the south) where plant workers lived are largely ghost towns.
		The power plant is situated on the northwest end of a cooling pond on the Pripyat River, which flows into the Dnepr River just 80 miles north of Kiev.
		The main features visible in the image are the massive concrete dams and levees that were constructed to contain elements of the power plant and prevent contaminated runoff from entering the local streams.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16526 (345 words)

	Ukraine, Romanina, Greece 2004
		He was 22 from Ukraine, and has a 33 year old Polish girlfriend.
		Before entering/exiting Ukraine, we had to wait 3 hours for the wheels to be swapped.
		The rails in Ukraine are spaced differently from the rest of Europe.
	etischer.com /europe4/left.html (2079 words)

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		Now it sits crumbling, abandoned, a mute but overwhelming testament to technological arrogance gone amok."[1] Pripyat was the city nearest Chernobyl's Unit 4, the reactor that exploded on April 26, 1986 and burned dangerously until October, spewing tons of cancer-causing isotopes around the world.[2] Mr.
		Mariotte is not known for emotional writing in The Monitor, but anyone who can stand to investigate the unfolding human consequences of the world's worst industrial catastrophe can understand his choice of words.
		Andrei Butenko, at Kiev Hospital No. 1 in Ukraine, says of his patients, "Routine chemotherapy seems to have lost its effectiveness; something has changed in the immune system."[15] Cesium's Genetic Assault: the 300 Years War Cesium-137 contamination is probably Chernobyl's most devastating and ominous consequence.
	www.ratical.org /radiation/Chernobyl/Chernobyl@10p2.txt (1174 words)

	Chernobyl at Ten: Half-lives and Half Truths, Part II
		Pripyat was the city nearest Chernobyl's Unit 4, the reactor that exploded on April 26, 1986 and burned dangerously until October, spewing tons of cancer-causing isotopes around the world.
		The British Medical Journal reported in 1995 that the rate of thyroid cancer in the region north of Chernobyl -- Ukraine and Belarus -- is 200 times higher than normal, and the (British) Imperial Cancer Research Fund found a 500 percent increase in thyroid cancers among Ukrainian children between 1986 and 1993.
		Fear is growing among physicians treating the young radiation victims, because the thyroid cancers are appearing sooner than expected and growing quicker than usual.
	www.ratical.org /radiation/Chernobyl/Chernobyl@10p2.html (1797 words)

	UNIFEED
		Various shots, neighbouring town of Pripyat, abandoned two days after accident because of radioactive contamination
		Resources should be refocused on highly contaminated areas and government programmes should be redesigned to "help those genuinely in need," said the report, "Chernobyl: The True Scale of the Accident," conducted by the Chernobyl Forum which includes eight specialized UN agencies and the governments of Belarus, Russia and the Ukraine.
		Although the disaster had terrible consequences for people living in the region, "We have not found profound negative health impacts to the rest of the population in surrounding areas, nor have we found widespread contamination that would continue to pose a substantial threat to human health," Burton Bennett, chairman of the Chernobyl Forum said.
	www.un.org /unifeed/script.asp?scriptId=524 (444 words)

	EPA - Chernobyl (EPA's Radiation Protection Program: Information)
		Ten years after the 1986 explosion of Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, EPA staff member Gregg Dempsey was given a rare tour inside the Sarcophagus that surrounds Unit 4.
		His slide show from that visit offers a unique historical snapshot of the conditions and challenges inside the plant, providing views of the interior of Unit 4 not seen elsewhere in Chernobyl photo collections.
		In addition, it offers the personal perspectives of workers who were present at the time of the accident, one of whom returns to his flat in the nearby city of Pripyat for the first time since evacuating it 10 years earlier.
	www.epa.gov /radiation/rert/chernobyl.html (697 words)

	News Releases - Manitowoc Crane Group
		A Potain MD 3200 tower crane at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine.
		A Potain MD 3200 tower crane is the key lifting apparatus in use for the reinforcement of a collapsing wall at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in the town of Pripyat, Ukraine.
		The special application crane is instrumental in the reinforcement of the existing wall and roof of Nuclear Reactor Number 4 – the location of a major accident 20 years ago.
	www.manitowoccranegroup.com /Press/EN/NREN20060801c.asp (548 words)

	4/25: Toxic Memories - World Magazine
		It took nearly 36 hours to evacuate Pripyat's residents, mostly workers at the doomed power station and their families.
		This month marks the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, which displaced more than 300,000 people across portions of Ukraine, Belarus, and Western Russia, and consigned millions to live in large swaths of radioactive-contaminated areas for the last two decades.
		Statistics on the number of residents expelled from all that was familiar by Chernobyl's fallout aren't disputed.
	studentnewsdaily.com /toxic_memories.shtml (1335 words)

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