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It remains the world’s worst nuclear accident and according to one report may have already claimed the lives of nearly one million people but, despite happening over twenty-five years ago, its toxic and deadly legacy still remains.
The Chernobyl disaster in April 1986 occurred when a series of explosions at the nuclear power plant in Ukraine released large amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere, affecting many areas in Europe and former Soviet republics.
The EBRD has agreed to buy a minority equity stake of around 15 per cent in Russia’s privately-held OJSC Katren, the holding vehicle for pharmaceutical distributors operating in Russia, Ukraine , Kazakhstan and Belarus, as well as a retail pharmacy chain in Russia, according to EBRD.
Russia´s state nanotechnology corporation Rusnano will spend $300 million to develop a newly-created international biopharmaceutical company Pro Bono Bio (PBB), with British investment fund Celtic Pharma being the other party to the deal.
The new company, with its headquarters both in Moscow and London, will focus on the development of innovative medicines in a such areas as hematology, endocrinology, cardiology, oncology, and neurology, as well asfight combat infectious diseases. According to the official statement, the British party will mostly be responsible for expertise and experience, while Rusnano will provide for necessary financing through its subsidiary Rusnano Capital. Also, Russia will soon have state of the art production facilities, the release adds.
Andrew Sibley, carpet maker Desso's regional sales and marketing director, looks at occupational asthma in Russia and the role of carpeting in improving indoor air quality.
Modern evidence suggests we cannot separate our working lives from the working environment. We respond instinctively to our surroundings at a human level and if those surroundings fail to meet our basic needs, we can be made sick by them. It even has a name: Sick Building Syndrome (SBS).