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Stories of the War in Ukraine: Volodymyr

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Therefore, together we try to fight fake information, even as we fight fear from sirens, from roadblocks, from military equipment, from the sound of explosions… The main thing I want to achieve is to inform all my acquaintances in Russia and Belarus about what is happening in Ukraine.

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Biofuels to help clean up Chernobyl land

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The Belarus government has teamed up with Irish firm Greenfield to build one of Europe’s largest bioethanol plants which would convert crops grown on contaminated land into fuel. Tags: Biofuels Belarus bio-ethanol biofuel Chernobyl crop Edie Greenfield plant. According to online resource, the Environmental Data [.].

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Opinion: Ukraine’s Next Crisis? Economic [and energy] Disaster

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This has led to an electricity crisis that can only be staunched by cutting domestic production along with exports to Europe, Crimea, and Belarus—or worse, getting more imports from Russia. The Ukrainian military’s showdown with separatists in the industrial east has forced coal mines to severely cut production or close down entirely.

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Ukraine Scrubbing Nuclear Agencies of Russian Influence

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They could still attack the Rivne nuclear plant, the largest under Ukraine’s control, which is just 60 kilometers from the Belarus border. He said Energoatom has already notified Rosatom that it will terminate fuel purchases, and he vowed to move quickly to build a much-needed repository for spent nuclear fuel.

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Covert Actions Heighten Ukraine’s Nuclear Peril

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analyzed video and photos from the attack and showed, among other too-close calls, that ordnance landed some 75 meters away from a reactor building. Balakan warns that Russia could seize Rivne via an airborne assault, noting increased Russian activity nearby in Belarus and stepped-up airborne training.

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European consortium investigating graphene-based materials for lightweight cars; energy-efficient and safe vehicles

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A key part of our project is building strong collaborations with world-class researchers who will be able to develop, understand and predict the behavior of the new graphene composites. The 66 new partners come from 19 countries, six of which are new to the consortium: Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary and Israel.

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UN: world population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050 and could peak at nearly 11 billion around 2100

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These low values underscore the potential impact of population ageing on the labor market and economic performance, as well as the fiscal pressures that many countries will face in the coming decades as they seek to build and maintain public systems of health care, pensions and social protection for older persons.

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