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Originally Posted by XabbaRus
Ukraine like Russia is very much a case of who you know and how your daddy is....
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In some ways, networking is important in every single country, but in Russia and former soviet republics this is indeed much more important.
Reading that report I had goose bumps, not at least due to her narrative style of writing. The details are downright scary, like staying in middle of asphault, glowing trees, people watching the radioactive glow like deers in headlights and the mail still left in the mailbox. So sad. And I feel ashamed that neither Russia mainly nor even the rest of the neighbours are helping Ukraine to rebuild the sarcophagus. It's like noone cares about it before it opens up again. I can't imagine what kind of animals live there now, but I've seen some photos and pics on TV back a few years which showed pigs with few heads and worse. Next year, it will be a 20 year aniversary. With 300 or so more to go before the area will be safer.
I still don't buy any juices or sugar produced in Ukraine.
There is going to be a PC game released, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The Shadow of Chernobyl by THQ, next year based on a russian novel about the 'zone' and the developers have actually filmed and modelled the whole 30sq meters of the area of the reactor and around it and recreated it in a game. Could be as close as I ever want to get to the place, but if you ever followed that game's progress, it looks photorealistic. Just a shame takes so long to get it released.
this is their website:
http://www.stalker-game.com/index_eng.htm