By Andrei Krivosheyev: This week President Alexander Lukashenko has paid a visit to the south of the Gomel region, where the Polesie State Radioecological Reserve, the country’s largest nature protection zone, is located. Alexander Lukashenko also made a stop in a village abandoned by its residents 30 years ago.
The Polesie State Radioecological Reserve has already become a world laboratory for studying man-made disasters, experts from Russia, Ukraine, the European Union, the United States and Japan coming there to adopt new experience and unique technologies. There are plans to set up a major research center for rehabilitating problem lands.
