* Ukraine PM, president continue feud Sep 20, 2008
A Ukrainian officer examines a huge map during military exercises on Thursday not far from Rivne. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko oversaw the military exercises. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
'Confessions' document Holocaust in Ukraine Oct 6, 2007
There is also a black-and-white photo from 1942 that shows a German police officer shooting naked Jewish women lying in a ravine in the Rivne region. Desbois travels with a team that includes two interpreters, a photographer, a ballistics specialist, a mapping expert and a note-taker. (International Herald Tribune)
Strange loveDespite Chernobyl Ukraine is keen to expand nuclear power Apr 27, 2006
The Rivne power station, where a 1,000 MW reactor opened in 2004 ... "We have the raw materials, we have the technology - nuclear energy is a panacea," says Nikolai Fridman, a former deputy energy minister, now director of the Rivne nuclear power station. (BBC News)
- Chernobyl - 20 years after the disaster Apr 26, 2006
"But others are, literally, dying to leave the village. Mikola Molchanovich, a distant relation, is the father of Sasha, a 12- year-old girl who this month was also being treated for constant stomach aches in a children's hospital in Rivne. He says: "My wife is in hospital giving birth, my son is in another hospital being treated for radiation sickness ... "This is our community; my parents lived and died here. We used to be able to collect 100kg of mushrooms a day - the whole village would... (Guardian Unlimited)
Chernobyl death figures 'too low' Apr 18, 2006
Doctor Oxana Lozova, who works at a children's hospital in Rivne district, 300km (190 miles) west of Chernobyl, said many generations appeared to be affected. "I think the fallout from Chernobyl has affected the immunity of those who were young children at the time of the disaster," she said. (BBC News)
Chernobyl diaryBBC News website visits Ukraine 20 years after nuclear disaster Mar 30, 2006
If the Chernobyl control room had something of a 60s retro feel - grey enamel surfaces, big plastic buttons, dim lighting - the bright magnolia-coloured control room of Rivne's fourth reactor is unmistakeably 21st Century ... Security at Rivne is pretty tight - no photography is allowed - and the staff exuded an air of efficiency and discipline ... View from the road en route to the Rivne nuclear power station. (BBC News -- Europe)
Nuclear factors Jan 26, 2006
" Containment hopes French company Framatom is working fast onsite to build a new sarcophagus to contain the old one. Orel hopes it will be completed as soon as possible. A supermarket remains abandoned in PripyatNuclear sector companies have been busy recently elsewhere in Ukraine too. Reactor number four was just one of several at Chernobyl, yet all these have been closed since 2000. To compensate for the loss, the Ukrainian government commissioned two new Russian designed reactors,... (Aljazeera.Net)
