Just weeks after a nuclear accident in Japan, Russia and Ukraine marked the 25th anniversary [April 26, 1986] of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion, which sent a cloud of radioactive fallout into Russia, Belarus and a large portion of northern Europe. The 1986 disaster has left a 30-kilometer area around the Chernobyl plant largely uninhabitable, and sickened thousands of people - including Natalia Manzurova - one of the many emergency workers sent to Chernobyl after the disaster.

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