Mahilyou activists visit Chernobyl-hit village (Photo)

Members of the Civic Forum youth opposition group and the non-registered Party of Freedom and Progress in Mahilyou visited an abandoned village heavily contaminated with radioactive substances following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident.   The village of Malinauka was bulldozed in 1999. Its residents were relocated to the village of Maiski located just a few dozen kilometers away.

 

The activists laid flowers to a monument to Chernobyl victims in the town of Cherykau.