The following morning, Tuesday, April 29, the press in Moscow remained entirely silent about the accident. In Ukraine, the daily papers in Kiev reported the news, but their editors did their best to keep it quiet: Pravda Ukrainy printed a short report at the bottom of page three, beneath an article recounting the story of two pensioners struggling to have telephones installed in their homes. Robitnycha Hazeta—the Ukrainian workers’ daily—took care to bury its Chernobyl story below the Soviet soccer league tables and coverage of a chess tournament.
