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