Belarus & Ukraine

Comparative Analysis of the Economic Transition of Belarus and Ukraine

Botanical Gardens of Western Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia

938 Botanical Gardens of Western Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia change chambers. Other PABG laboratories investigate the effects of air pollutants (mainly SO2 and particulates) and the cultivation and use of nonsymbiotic, nitrogen-fixing Cyanobacteria as soil amendments. The region’s soils are acidic (pH 3.5–5) and of poor agricultural quality, thus requiring large amounts of fertilizer ...

Appendix 10: Thyroid Cancer in Ukraine and Belarus after the Chernobyl Accident: Baseline and Total Incidence

Data are analyzed for Kyiv and Sewastopol City and 25 oblasts (regions) in Ukraine, and for Minsk and Gomel City and 6 oblasts in Belarus. Average thyroid doses due to the Chernobyl accident were assessed for every birth year in the period 1968-85. Census data were used to derive the population in 1986. Case data were thyroid cancers operated in the period 19862001 allocated to the place of res...

Alcohol Consumption and Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality Trends in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine

Background: The Slavic countries of the former Soviet Union (fSU) Russia, Belarus and Ukraine retain one of the highest ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality rates in the world, despite a gradual decline over the past decade Aims: The present study aims to analyze whether population drinking is able to explain the dramatic fluctuations in IHD mortality rates in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine from...

Elevated Tsh in Children Who Emigrated to Israel from Belarus and the Ukraine near Chernobyl

The degree of radiation exposure to the thyroids of children who originally lived in Chernobyl contaminated areas is of concern in Israel, because of the many immigrants who arrived from such areas in a wave of immigration from the CIS countries since 1990. Of the 650,000 people who emigrated to Israel since that time, our estimate is that about 20% came from regions of the Ukraine, Russia and ...