Read the text and determine if the sentence is true:

Article 19 said a correspondent for the independent newspaper Narodnaya Volya who attempted to determine how many people involved in emergency work in the contaminated zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor after the 1986 catastrophe were still alive was told by the Ministry of Emergencies that non-state newspapers could be refused access to any information.

Sentence: The catastrophe at Chernobyl happened in 1986.
Available options:
*yes.
*no.
A:
yes