Russian bloggers report on radioactive contamination in Moscow and measures taken by local authorities. One of them writes:
"Radioactivity background sharply increased in Moscow. Burning forests, where Russia hid consequences of its environmental crimes, such as Tula region, Aleksin and Uzlovaya, began to discharge radioactivity accumulated during the Chernobyl disaster.
Forests are burning, where they hid the contamination from the Mayak Highly Radioactive Wastes Burial Site and the like. Burial sites with tons of foreign radioactive wastes, brought to Russia for storage from all over the world, are also burning. Radioactive dust is spread all across Russia, including Moscow.
Street cleaning vehicles appeared in Moscow - with water pulverized upwards. And they appeared at a time when smoke in the air disappeared, and dummy Muscovites made fun of it, they say that city authorities do it just to write reports, for the sake of bureaucratic instructions.
In fact, the aim of these measures is degassing as they do in case of a nuclear war. This way you can wash out traces of radioactivity which has nothing to do with smoke and smog. It is just the fact that air is contaminated with strontium. Radioactive strontium is transparent and does not smell, but it still needs to be removed from the air. That is why water from vehicles is directed upwards. Transparent and seemingly clean air in Moscow is dangerous.
Kiev 1986 and Moscow 2010, it is all the same now. All this highly radioactive dirt, which did not reach Moscow in 1986 and was accumulated by forests in Russia, is now released, like from a burning trash, and flies to Moscow".
Meanwhile, Russian media reported about smog and panic in Komarchevskom district of Bryansk region and in the city of Bryansk itself. As noted by local residents, they learned about the burning of highly radioactive post-Chernobyl forests in their region from Moscow newspapers and TV. Local authorities keeps such news strictly secret.
As explained by older residents in Bryansk region, if the post-Chernobyl forests blaze with a renewed force, then the chances are even stronger for radioactive contamination of their whole region.
Meanwhile, Russian government gradually began to make its citizens to accept the fact that large areas of the country are now contaminated with radioactive wastes. A Moscow newspaper "Peasants' Gazette" published an article on Sunday on how to inhibit radiation sickness with proper food. The paper advises Russian citizens to eat more vegetables containing pectids, and, while dying in agony, not to grudge against authorities, but to hope that vegetables could heal them from radiation sickness. The paper writes:
"Vegetables are needed to preserve the immune system, which is weakened under the influence of radiation. Green plants (their eatable parts), like sorrel, parsley, lettuce, have in comparison with green onion, garlic, carrots (fascicle plants) greater ability to inhibit primary radionuclides up to 5.5-fold.
Because of anti-radiation properties of spices, it is desirable that people living in conditions of increased radiation widely use them for cooking.
Salted cucumbers, tomatoes, watermelons protect against radiation. Radioactivity of cesium-137 in food with pickled vegetables is about half the radioactivity in fresh vegetables. Fruit and vegetable juices are used to prevent iodine deficiency", the paper writes.
Similar articles were also published in the Moscow magazine "The Real Master" and other Russian media outlets. Not a single similar article ever appeared in Russia for the last 24 years since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center
