On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster — and only weeks after the reactor meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi — Ukrainian feminist critic Tamara Zlobina examines a Kyiv exhibition that confronts what she terms the “infotrauma” of nuclear catastrophe. Her argument is that the explosion of 26 April 1986 became a global disaster not only through radiation but through Soviet silencing of information, and that post-Soviet states have continued this displacement: liquidators are (…)

The 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, on 26 April 2026, falls in a radically transformed setting. Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine; a Russian drone breach of the New Safe Confinement on 14 February 2025, whose containment function — Greenpeace concluded in mid-April 2026 — has not been fully restored despite the repair work; the offensive return of a “nuclear renaissance” promoted by European, US and East Asian governments in the name of climate; the military occupation (…)

Le 40e anniversaire de la catastrophe de Tchernobyl, le 26 avril 2026, intervient dans un contexte radicalement transformé. Guerre russe d'agression contre l'Ukraine ; drone russe ayant percé la Nouvelle enceinte de confinement en février 2025, dont Greenpeace constate mi-avril 2026 qu'elle n'a pas pu être pleinement rétablie ; retour offensif d'une « renaissance nucléaire » portée par les gouvernements européens au nom du climat ; occupation militaire de la centrale de Zaporijia depuis mars (…)