Over 4,000 Russian villages remain in Chernobyl-polluted zone
04.04.2006, 23.05
MOSCOW, April 4 (Itar-Tass) — Some 4,343 towns and villages in 14 Russian regions with the total population of 1.4 million lie within the radioactive contamination zone 20 years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, Russian Chief Public Health Official and member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Gennady Onishchenko said on Tuesday.
He said the Chernobyl accident had mostly affected the Bryansk (...)