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Minsk. Sleek spiral towers of glass and concrete encircle a 35-story skyscraper. Gondolas drift leisurely along the man-made canals.

Vitaly Robertus, a vice president at Kremlin-linked oil giant Lukoil which initially opposed the war in Ukraine, was found dead in his office at the Moscow firm

On April 26, 1986, the world's worst ever nuclear disaster was unleashed after Chernobyl's Reactor Number Four exploded - dispersing deadly radioactive material into the atmosphere and surrounding area