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News and Press Release in English on Ukraine about Gender and Protection and Human Rights; published on 20 Mar 2023 by ICC
Ukrainian secret service agents have confiscated the first shipment of a vodka produced inside Chernobyl's radioactive zone â with manufacturers questioning their motives. Atomik vodka is made from apples grown in the Narodychi district, part of the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant. The Chernobyl Spirit Company said 1500 bottles were bound for the UK, but a team sent by Ukraine's secret service (SBU) intercepted their trucks in March. Atomik vodka is made from apples grown in the Narodychi district, part of the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant.(Univers...
Photo: Sergei Supinsky/AFP (Getty Images) April marked the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster—a solemn, terrifying occasion made even more severe by its overlap with another deadly, global microscopic crisis. And while tourists and researchers are now permitted to visit the 1000-square mile Exclusion Zone (including the nuclear plant’s actual control room) on certain conditions, many still stigmatize the area, with unfortunately economic reverberations echoing throughout the region. Advertisement Last week, the first, 1500 bottle batch of ATOMIK—a vodka made with apples farmed ...
Chernobyl Vodka Made From Apples Grown Near Nuclear Disaster Seized by Police On 5/10/21 at 7:22 AM EDT The first bottles in a batch of artisan vodka made from apples grown near Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant have been seized by the authorities. However, about 1,500 bottles of 'ATOMIK' spirits were confiscated on March 19 and seized following a Ukrainian security services investigation, the company behind the product said. The Chernobyl Spirit Company is a self-described social enterprise aiming to produce "high quality artisan vodka" from land in the areas of Ukraine abandoned after...
The first batch of ATOMIK Chernobyl Spirits – an artisan spirit drink made using ingredients from inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone – has hit a rocky start after it was mysteriously seized by the Ukrainian Secret Services. The Chernobyl Spirit Company announced last week that 1,500 bottles of their ATOMIK alcoholic spirit were confiscated on March 19, following an investigation by the SBU, the Security Service of Ukraine, while en route to the UK. The company was set up by Professor Jim Smith, a prominent environmental scientist from the UK who has studied the Chernobyl accident sinc...