2019/08/11

Masked Police Detain Russian Opposition Leader Sobol

Russia’s environmental monitoring agency released data showing that gamma radiation in Severodvinsk had risen up to 16 times the expected levels for a period of two hours following the explosion.


A short-term spike in radiation levels has been recorded after a rocket engine exploded during a test in Russia, regional authorities said.

The botched production of a powerful neutrino source is the most likely cause of a radioactive cloud that enveloped much of Europe in the autumn of 2017.

Police in Moscow detained prominent opposition leader Lyubov Sobol on August 10 following a raid as she prepared to attend a sanctioned opposition rally