“If the decision is the Ukrainian government’s final decision before Vilnius, we’re disappointed,” US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told a news briefing. “We believe there was ample time to resolve all remaining obstacles to signing the association agreement in Vilnius with sufficient effort and commitment.”
Showing posts with label Ukraine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ukraine. Show all posts
Friday, November 22, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Ukraine: 50,000 troops are ready to defend the East on Syria
Ukraine: 50,000 troops are ready to defend the East on Syria and demanded Syrian citizenship retired Ukrainian officers appealed to Assad to allow him to fight in Syria, and undertakes to bring 50,000 volunteers believe and trust the wisdom of the Commander's Palace and swear they will atlom we him until the last terrorist and wish of the Syrian Government granted citizenship of honour, pride and parents. ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Today is Black Sea Fleet Day
Today is Black Sea Fleet Day, a holiday established on May 13, 1996 — 17 years ago today. The Black Sea Fleet was founded in 1783 and its ships have been used in, among others, the Russian-Turkish War, the Crimean War, and the Russian-Georgian war in 2008.
Navy commander Viktor Chirkov said this weekend that ships from the Black Sea Fleet will form the foundation of a new grouping that will be permanently deployed in the Mediterranean Sea. Read more:http://goo.gl/4DfH5
Friday, April 26, 2013
RIP: April 26, 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
Soviet authorities started evacuating people from the contaminated area around Chernobyl within 36 hours of the accident. By May 1986, about a month later, all those living within a 30 km radius of the plant — about 120,000 people — had been relocated.
On May, 1 the parade and other May celebrations did took place in Kyiv, in the city with 4 million population. These days the level of radiation in Kyiv was several times higher than the maximum allowable.
According to reports from Soviet scientists, 35,000 km were contaminated by caesium-137 to levels that can be very dangerous for people's health. It estimates that roughly 850,000 people lived in this area. That is why the issue of long-term effects of Chernobyl disaster on civilians is highly controversial. The number of people whose lives were affected by the accident is enormous. Over 300,000 people were resettled because of the accident; according to the official statistics around 600,000 participated in the cleanup; millions lived and continue to live in the contaminated area. On the other hand, most of those affected received relatively low doses of radiation; there is little evidence of increased mortality, cancers or birth defects among them; and when such evidence is present, existence of a causal link to radioactive contamination is uncertain.
Epidemiological studies have been hampered in the former Soviet Union by a lack of funds, an infrastructure with little or no experience in chronic disease epidemiology. International efforts to organize epidemiological studies have been slowed by some of the same factors, especially the lack of a suitable scientific infrastructure.
The activities undertaken by Belarus and Ukraine in response to the accident — remediation of the environment, evacuation and resettlement, development of uncontaminated food sources and food distribution channels, and public health measures — have overburdened the governments of those countries have already passed 27 years.
But there is another problem. It is the sarcophagus itself. The sarcophagus is not an effective permanent enclosure for the destroyed reiactor. Its hasty construction, in many cases conducted remotely with industrial robots, means it is aging badly, and if it collapses, another cloud of radioactive dust could be released. The sarcophagus is so badly damaged that a small earth tremour or severe winds could cause the roof to collapse. A number of plans have been discussed for building a more permanent enclosure. Most of the money donated by foreign countries and contributed by Ukraine has been squandered by inefficient distribution of construction contracts and overall management, or simply stolen.
About 95% of the nuclear fuel (about 180 tones) in the reactor at the time of the accident remains inside the shelter, with a total radioactivity of nearly 18 million curies. The radioactive material consists of core fragments, dust, and lava-like «fuel-containing materials »(FCM) that flowed through the wrecked reactor building before hardening into a ceramic form. By conservative estimates, there is at least four tons of radioactive dust inside the shelter.
Water continues to leak into the shelter, spreading radioactive materials throughout the wrecked reactor building and iiito the surrounding groundwater. The high humidity inside the shelter continues to erode the concrete and steel of the sarcophagus. It is pretty dangerous and if no measures are taken, we might face another disaster caused by our complete disregard and stupidity.
Kiev and Moscow mark 27 year anniversary of Chernobyl
Photo: RIA Novosti
Ukraine today remembers the victims of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant which occurred 27 years ago.
In Kiev and regional centers prayer services will be held for the victims and a requiem will be read at the Chernobyl memorial where flowers will be laid.
A gathering in memory of the victims was also held on Thursday night in Moscow with rescue workers their children and grandchildren gathering on Suvorov Square.
They observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims and launched sky lanterns as a symbol of the departed.
Fire engines turned on their flashing lights at 01:23AM, at the very minute when the 4th power unit of the station exploded.
The Chernobyl accident was the largest man-made disaster in history involving the peaceful atom.
There is talk that a Biosphere Reserve may be established on the territory of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Ukraine has put forward the idea which would include cooperation with Russia and Belarus.
Voice of Russia,
Monday, April 15, 2013
Moscou et Kiev vont renforcer leur coopération militaire et technique
La coopération militaire et technique entre la Russie et l'Ukraine se développant de façon dynamique, les parties s'apprêtent à signer prochainement un accord intergouvernemental sur la réalisation d'un programme dans ce domaine, a annoncé lundi aux journalistes le vice-ministre russe de la Défense Anatoli Antonov.
"Le programme comprend 255 domaines de coopération, plus de 100 entreprises russes et plus de 60 entreprises ukrainiennes chargés d'assurer sa réalisation", a indiqué le vice-ministre.
Il a par ailleurs annoncé que "la préparation d'accords intergouvernementaux dans les domaines de la lutte contre les pirates, de la poste militaire, de la topographie, de la cartographie et de la géodésie se trouvait au stade final".
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