Meanwhile, back in Chernobyl
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Ukraine has been a happening place since Ruslana, dressed as a warrior, won the Eurovision Song Contest earlier this year.
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Documentaries on the effects on children of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and the Indian Point power plant will be broadcast back-to-back by HBO.
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Bullets, trucks and armor -- the meat and potatoes of the defense industry -- are back in fashion.
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The crew of a Canadian submarine which was left drifting in the Atlantic for five days after a fire broke out on board were finally back on dry land last night.
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Russian and US crew members begin their return to Earth, leaving two men on the International Space station.
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Russian cosmonauts aboard the  International Space Station were trying on Saturday to  kick-start components of a critical computer system that were  still down, but most parts were up and running, raising hopes  they would not crash again.
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YEKATERINBURG, Russia, Aug. 31 -- For the first time in 3 1/2 years, Russia on Friday allowed visiting American officials to look inside the world's largest fortified warehouse for nuclear materials, a graveyard for plutonium that Russia has tried to keep closed.
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Russian officials on Saturday restarted a nuclear reactor that sparked widespread panic in southern Russia when it automatically shut down earlier this week.
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It was just an hour into the new work week. Maintenance workers at the train depot were back on the job when air raid sirens began to wail.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Children returned to schools in this grief-stricken southern Russian town Wednesday for the first time since heavily armed militants seized more than 1,200 hostages at a school two weeks ago in a raid that shocked Russia and the world.
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Russia reports a radiation leak at a nuclear plant in the Urals, but says that nobody was hurt.
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The six Russian computers aboard the International Space Station resumed their first full day of operation Sunday.  Russian and American astronauts worked through the week to restore the computers, which help control life support aboard the station and fix its position in space.
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Balky computers on the International  Space Station were fully revived on Saturday, but crew members  admitted the problem had worried them and served as a reminder  that spaceflight is dangerous.
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Emma Jane Kirby travels to Epinal in eastern France to meet people who are suffering from the effects of too much radiation caused by their cancer treatment.
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No one lives here anymore. Only radiation-danger signs stick up from the ground in this village contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl accident, and abandoned buildings gape silently, their windows broken.
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Two weeks after heavily armed militants took more than 1,200 people hostage in a Russian school, children in the grief-stricken town of Beslan returned to classes today accompanied by nervous relatives and armed camouflage-clad police.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev returned to Russia on Saturday, more than two weeks after undergoing surgery in Germany for a blocked artery in the neck, his aide said.