BelarusandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
2 SHARED EVENTSUkraine

Entangled histories

2 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · BLR LEFT · UKR RIGHT

1. 26 Apr 1986

   The Chernobyl disaster

   The reactor explosion at Chernobyl in Ukraine sent about 70 percent of its radioactive fallout onto Belarus, contaminating nearly a quarter of the country's territory and affecting some 2.2 million people.

   Catastrophe · from the Belarus chronicle · Chernobyl, Independence and the Lukashenka Era · REFS 2 — Fallout from Chernobyl disaster still a 'very important challenge' for Belarus, Belarus

2. 8 Dec 1991

   Belavezha Accords dissolve the USSR

   In the Belavezha forest in Belarus, part of the UNESCO-listed Belovezhskaya Pushcha, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, including Stanislau Shushkevich, signed accords declaring that the USSR had ceased to exist and founding the Commonwealth of Independent States.

   Politics & Power · from the Belarus chronicle · Chernobyl, Independence and the Lukashenka Era · REFS 3 — Belavezha Agreement (1991), Bialowieza Forest (Belovezhskaya Pushcha), Belarus: The emergence of the Belorussian S.S.R.