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An information headquarters during the fires, information resistance, true footage and explanations for people

April 2014Charity Maidan tours for foreignersIn the spring of 2014 the world watched the Maidan through a TV screen, and russian propaganda was the loudest voice. We offered foreigners a chance to walk the Maidan with those who had stood there.Read more
June 19, 2019, Chornobyl HUB, KyivMeeting the people of the accident after the HBO series ChernobylFor years Oleksii Ananenko was reported to have died after going down under the reactor. That evening he sat in the audience watching an actor play him.Read more
April 2020Helping firefighters and victims of the 2020 fires in the ZoneThe fires reached Prypiat. Firefighters fought them in the same old ZIL trucks seen in every photo from 1986, and without maps of the area. "We're like blind people here," they said.Read more
September 24, 2020A promotional press tour on developing tourist sites in the Chornobyl ZoneMore than ten media outlets, TV cameras and the gates of a former vehicle depot in Prypiat. Here we told the story of a museum the Zone never got.Read more
November 14, 2020, Potashnia village, Kyiv regionPlanting Ukraine's first journalists' square"A journalist must be able to do more than write. Today journalists were digging." Five linden trees that will outlive us all.Read more
February 24-25, 2022The camera at the Dytiatky checkpoint that recorded the start of the invasionUkrainian vehicles stood at the checkpoint for a while and left. It seemed the danger had passed. Two hours later the russian columns came. We counted them through a small camera on our kiosk.Read more
February - April 2022Trenches in the Red Forest: an information and psychological operationrussian soldiers were digging trenches in one of the most contaminated places in the Zone. We told media around the world about it. The danger was deliberately exaggerated - and the rumors reached the invaders themselves.Read more
September 20, 2022Explaining the safety of the Vyshhorod hydroelectric dam to Kyiv residentsIn the fall of 2022 panic spread across Kyiv: what if the russians struck the Vyshhorod hydroelectric dam? We answered without exaggeration - with science in hand.Read more
since 2022; example - March 2024On-site radiation measurements to reassure peopleAfter the strike on the Academy of Arts, the people clearing the rubble asked: was there radiation in the missile? We came with dosimeters.Read more
April 28, 2026, Bern (online participation)An event of the Embassy of Ukraine in Switzerland for the 40th anniversarySwiss politicians, scientists and experts gathered in Bern to talk about Chornobyl and the war. Yaroslav joined the conversation from Kyiv.Read more

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