This is what I’ve shot on April 15th 2009, during my stay in Minsk and the Opera re-opening. It was an atmosphere like in a fairy tale. Guests: Various ministers (belarusian, russian, cutlture minister, foreign minister) and, of course, the Moscow Ensemble, with “Swan Lake”. What a contrast to the shadows in Belarus: A beautiful [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Belarus: Minsk Opera re-opening
Posted in 2009, Ballet, Belarus, Dictatorship, Europe, Lukashenko, Minsk, Opera, Russia, eastern-europe on April 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Belarus: 2009 Chernobyl March – eyewitness
Posted in 2009, Atom, Atombomb, Atomic power, Belarus, Chernobyl, Children, Dictatorship, Europe, IAEA, ICRP, IPPNW, Lukashenko, Ministry of Health, Minsk, Radiation, Rosatom, Russia, accident, anti-nuclear, eastern-europe, nuclear, reactor on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the footage of the Chernobyl 2009 March – a Charter97.org link. There is also Riot Police – just like in 2006 – here is a report sent to me by a belarusian friend.
Minsk, April 26th 2009 – it’s the 23rd Chernobyl year. Minsk – the main capital of Belarus – the most Chernobyl [...]
23 Chernobyl years – reactor explosion
Posted in 2009, Atombomb, Atomic power, Belarus, Caesium, Chernobyl, Children, Dictatorship, Environment, Europe, IAEA, IPPNW, Minsk, Plutonium, Radiation, Rosatom, Russia, Tschernobyl, anti-nuclear, eastern-europe, emission, energy, nuclear, reactor, thyroid cancer on April 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It’s not 23 years after Chernobyl,
It’s “23 Chernobyl years.”
Chernobyl is continuing to harm people and environment (scientific proven by Dr. Gennadi Milinevsky, Kiev, Anders Pape Moller CNRS and Prof. Timothy A. Mousseau, South Carolina ):
US Chernobyl Research Initiative: Consequences for People, insects and birds
Chernobyl was the explosion of a former russian atomic reactor in 1986.
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From Minsk to Brest – April 2009
Posted in 2009, 89 millimeter, Belarus, Brest, Minsk, train on April 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
When going back from Belarus to Germany on April 16th, I passed Brest, the border City between Poland and Belarus. The track width in Russia / Belarus is 89 millimeter narrower than in Western Europe. Therefor each train which leaves Russia, need other wheels. I filmed the process on April 16th. Here is a short [...]
Belarus in April 2009
Posted in 2009, Atom, Atomic power, Belarus, Caesium, Chernobyl, Children, Dictator, Dictatorship, Europe, Germany, IBB, IPPNW, KGB, Metro, Minsk, Russia, anti-nuclear, eastern-europe, nuclear, reactor on April 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday (April 17th) I returned from a trip to Belarus. Organized by the German Civil Initiative for a World without an Atomic Threat (based in Rottweil) and the Belarusian Fond for the Children of Chernobyl (based in Minsk). We were a group of 11 people (age range from 18 – 54), students, special need carers, [...]
