Leader Volodymyr Shcherbytsky suppressed press coverage of a 1986 disaster in this Soviet republic
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Mikhail Gorbachev, whose leadership guided the Kremlin response, smiled ... 
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authorities in April, 1986, reacted with "a total lie, falsehoods, cover-up and 
concealment," the commission chairman, Volodymyr Yavorivsky, said.