At 1 pm assistant of chief of Volgodonsk regoinal administration Igor Guskov and Head of Volgodonsk municipal Council came to the blockade. Kazak gave the same petitions from the name of 1st Don District. Then local authority staff gave the guarantee that referendum will be iniciated by municipal council, urgently, before 10 am of the next day,August, 12th, and Kozaks with Rainbow Keepers stoped blockade temporary. About 60 conference participants took a bus trip to Chernobyl April 23. At the same time at least five fires were burning very close to Chernobyl in the zone.
Nobody knows what dose the participants or downwinders received.
Not a bit of It. In the week leading up to the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe on April 26,the Ukrainian government banned its media outlets from publicizing anti-nuclear information. As for public actions in Kiev to mark the anniversary - they were forbidden by the city's mayor. When anti-nuclear campaigners on April 23 defied the ban on demonstrations and picketed government offices, the result was bruised limbs and a string of arrests and jailing. The activists first created a chain symbolizing Ukrainian nuclear dependence.