Russia

Nadya Sporysheva from Moscow and Julia Seeleva from Tomsk in Russia worked on this contribution. Nadya found a short article about Chernobyl in the “Pravda” from 2nd May 1986. In the number from 15th May, there was another article on the first page of the “Pravda”. Julia presents two articles from the “Izvestia” from 30th April 1986.

Nadya Sporysheva:
Pravda (2nd May 1986):

In the soviet period the “Pravda” was the most important communist newspaper for the soviet people.
I found that the article “FROM THE USSR COUNCIL OF MINISTERS” appeared in “Pravda” on May, 2 because the 1st May newspaper was completely dedicated to the Labor Day.

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