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Calculated Shard: 16 (from laksa133)

2. Crawled Status Check

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa016.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48559289\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48559289\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-48559289","crawl_time":1773658238,"first_indexed_time":1559926456,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,bbc!www,\/news\/world-europe-48559289 s443","src_root_hash":"1643509356818581016","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Russia to make its own show about Chernobyl that implicates the US","meta_descriptions":["The series being produced by NTV will claim that the CIA was involved in the nuclear disaster."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"7 June 2019\nSky UK\/HBO\nAt least 31 people were killed and many more were injured in what was the world's worst nuclear power accident\nRussian state TV is working on its own version of Chernobyl, a series based on the worst nuclear accident in history.\nThe NTV drama will deviate from the acclaimed HBO series - and from historical reality - by claiming that the CIA was involved in the disaster.\nDirector Aleksey Muradov claims it will show \"what really happened back then\".\nHBO's miniseries, which concluded on Monday, received the highest ever score for a TV show on IMdB, as well as a 9.1 rating on Russian equivalent Kinopoisk.\n\"There is a theory that Americans infiltrated the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,\" he told the paper. \"Many historians do not rule out the possibility that on the day of the explosion, an agent of the enemy's intelligence services was working at the station.\"\nChernobyl disaster: 'I didn't know the truth'\nWill Gompertz reviews Chernobyl\nThe Hollywood Reporter reports that the Russian culture ministry has contributed 30 million rubles ($463,000; £363,000) to the show.\nThe No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded on 26 April 1986 in the Ukrainian city of Pripyat.\nAt least 31 people were killed in the immediate aftermath, and the effects continue to be felt to this day.\nWhat did Russia think of HBO's Chernobyl?\nThere has been plenty of praise in Russia for the authenticity of Chernobyl.\nIzvestia newspaper declared it a more 'realistic' portrayal of the era than most Russian films manage. There's also admiration of how the series conveys the heroism of ordinary people.\nBut there's been a crescendo of criticism, too. One columnist declared the show a plot to undermine Russia's current atomic agency. Others called it American 'propaganda', blackening the image of the USSR and exaggerating the callousness of the Soviet response.\nNo-one disputes that it's got people talking. They're been busy sharing their own Chernobyl stories on social media, with younger Russians often hearing them for the first time. So one Twitter user thanked the series for 'giving us back our history.'\nIn the end,\nas one commentator concludes\n, the main reason for the backlash is likely a feeling of shame that it was the US that told the tale of Chernobyl, not Russia itself.\nThe show has been particularly unpopular with Russian state TV and the country's tabloid newspapers.\nChernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment\nThe people who moved to the Chernobyl exclusion zone\nThis, he continued, was not because \"they don't like us\" but because \"they simply cannot understand us\".\nKomsomolskaya Pravda published several negative articles about the show - including one floating a conspiracy theory that\nit was produced by competitors of Rosatom\n, Russia's state nuclear company, to ruin the country's reputation as a nuclear power.\nSky UK\/HBO\nThe show has been praised for its attention to detail\nBut reviewers in independent media outlets praised its writer Craig Mazin for his minute attention to detail.\n\"Like I see the license plate for a car in one scene has the real numbers for the [Kiev] region,\" he said. \"Who's going to notice that in America or England?\"\nA challenge to rosy views of Russia's past\nAdam Robinson, BBC Monitoring - The world through its media\nFor the Kremlin, the topic of history is a highly sensitive one - especially about the Soviet Union.\nOfficial media now tend to paint a sanitised, idealised vision of the USSR, and portray Putin's Russia as its spiritual heir.\nThis makes it easy to see any critical view of the Soviet past as an attack on the Kremlin's ideological power base.\nIt's a narrative it seeks to completely control and guard from outside influences - particularly from a West it sees as hostile.\nSome Russians feel the version of reality offered by Kremlin-controlled media is not entirely unlike the lies told by the Soviet state.\nAs a result, perhaps the most dangerous idea was the key question running though Chernobyl - what is the cost of lies?\nBBC Monitoring\nreports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. 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[Live Sport](https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/live\/sport)\n\n[Home](https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/)\n\nNews\n\n[Sport](https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport)\n\nBusiness\n\nTechnology\n\n[Health](https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/health)\n\nCulture\n\nArts\n\nTravel\n\nEarth\n\nAudio\n\nVideo\n\nLive\n\n[Weather](https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/weather)\n\n[Newsletters](https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/newsletters)\n\n# Russia to make its own show about Chernobyl that implicates the US\n7 June 2019\n\nShare\n\nSave\n\nShare\n\nSave\n\n![Sky UK\/HBO Chernobyl on Sky Atlantic](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/103EA\/production\/_106783566_053706463-1.jpg.webp)Sky UK\/HBO\n\nAt least 31 people were killed and many more were injured in what was the world's worst nuclear power accident\n\n**Russian state TV is working on its own version of Chernobyl, a series based on the worst nuclear accident in history.**\n\nThe NTV drama will deviate from the acclaimed HBO series - and from historical reality - by claiming that the CIA was involved in the disaster.\n\nDirector Aleksey Muradov claims it will show \"what really happened back then\".\n\nHBO's miniseries, which concluded on Monday, received the highest ever score for a TV show on IMdB, as well as a 9.1 rating on Russian equivalent Kinopoisk.\n\nBut in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, Russia's most widely-read tabloid, Mr Muradov said his version of the show \"[proposes an alternative view on the tragedy in Pripyat](https:\/\/www.kp.ru\/daily\/26883\/3927378\/)\".\n\n\"There is a theory that Americans infiltrated the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,\" he told the paper. \"Many historians do not rule out the possibility that on the day of the explosion, an agent of the enemy's intelligence services was working at the station.\"\n\n- [Chernobyl disaster: 'I didn't know the truth'](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-48090834)\n- [Will Gompertz reviews Chernobyl](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-48152005)\n\nThe Hollywood Reporter reports that the Russian culture ministry has contributed 30 million rubles (\\$463,000; £363,000) to the show.\n\nThe No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded on 26 April 1986 in the Ukrainian city of Pripyat.\n\nAt least 31 people were killed in the immediate aftermath, and the effects continue to be felt to this day.\n\n![Presentational grey line](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/1226D\/production\/_105894347_grey_line-nc.png.webp)\n\n## What did Russia think of HBO's Chernobyl?\n![Analysis box by Sarah Rainsford, Moscow correspondent](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/DEE3\/production\/_107295075_sarahrainsford-nc.png.webp)\n\nThere has been plenty of praise in Russia for the authenticity of Chernobyl.\n\nIzvestia newspaper declared it a more 'realistic' portrayal of the era than most Russian films manage. There's also admiration of how the series conveys the heroism of ordinary people.\n\nBut there's been a crescendo of criticism, too. One columnist declared the show a plot to undermine Russia's current atomic agency. Others called it American 'propaganda', blackening the image of the USSR and exaggerating the callousness of the Soviet response.\n\nNo-one disputes that it's got people talking. They're been busy sharing their own Chernobyl stories on social media, with younger Russians often hearing them for the first time. So one Twitter user thanked the series for 'giving us back our history.'\n\nIn the end, [as one commentator concludes](https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2019\/06\/04\/putins-media-struggle-to-deal-with-hbos-chernobyl-a65866), the main reason for the backlash is likely a feeling of shame that it was the US that told the tale of Chernobyl, not Russia itself.\n\n![Presentational grey line](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/1226D\/production\/_105894347_grey_line-nc.png.webp)\n\nThe show has been particularly unpopular with Russian state TV and the country's tabloid newspapers.\n\nSpeaking to TV website Teleprogramma, columnist Anatoly Wasserman said: \"If Anglo-Saxons film something about Russians, [it definitely will not correspond to the truth](https:\/\/teleprogramma.pro\/tele\/series\/1065726-vasserman-nazval-serial-chernobyl-ne-sootvetstvuyushchim-3483\/).\"\n\n- [Chernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-47227767)\n- [The people who moved to the Chernobyl exclusion zone](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/resources\/idt-sh\/moving_to_Chernobyl)\n\nThis, he continued, was not because \"they don't like us\" but because \"they simply cannot understand us\".\n\nKomsomolskaya Pravda published several negative articles about the show - including one floating a conspiracy theory that [it was produced by competitors of Rosatom](https:\/\/www.kp.ru\/daily\/26981.7\/4039993\/), Russia's state nuclear company, to ruin the country's reputation as a nuclear power.\n\n![Sky UK\/HBO Chernobyl on Sky Atlantic](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/D105\/production\/_106790535_a12c3ae6-7803-424a-8a23-020c940b3d8a.jpg.webp)Sky UK\/HBO\n\nThe show has been praised for its attention to detail\n\nBut reviewers in independent media outlets praised its writer Craig Mazin for his minute attention to detail.\n\nSlava Malamud, a US-based journalist who grew up during the Soviet era in what is now Moldova, wrote on the independent Russian news site Meduza that \"[the respect and meticulousness the show's creators brought to their work is breathtaking](https:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/feature\/2019\/05\/30\/i-was-there-and-i-don-t-want-to-watch-this-anymore)\".\n\n\"Like I see the license plate for a car in one scene has the real numbers for the \\[Kiev\\] region,\" he said. \"Who's going to notice that in America or England?\"\n\n![Presentational grey line](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/1226D\/production\/_105894347_grey_line-nc.png.webp)\n\n## A challenge to rosy views of Russia's past\n**Adam Robinson, BBC Monitoring - The world through its media**\n\nFor the Kremlin, the topic of history is a highly sensitive one - especially about the Soviet Union.\n\nOfficial media now tend to paint a sanitised, idealised vision of the USSR, and portray Putin's Russia as its spiritual heir.\n\nThis makes it easy to see any critical view of the Soviet past as an attack on the Kremlin's ideological power base.\n\nIt's a narrative it seeks to completely control and guard from outside influences - particularly from a West it sees as hostile.\n\nSome Russians feel the version of reality offered by Kremlin-controlled media is not entirely unlike the lies told by the Soviet state.\n\nAs a result, perhaps the most dangerous idea was the key question running though Chernobyl - what is the cost of lies?\n\n[BBC Monitoring](https:\/\/monitoring.bbc.co.uk\/) *reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. 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There's also admiration of how the series conveys the heroism of ordinary people.\n\nBut there's been a crescendo of criticism, too. One columnist declared the show a plot to undermine Russia's current atomic agency. Others called it American 'propaganda', blackening the image of the USSR and exaggerating the callousness of the Soviet response.\n\nNo-one disputes that it's got people talking. They're been busy sharing their own Chernobyl stories on social media, with younger Russians often hearing them for the first time. So one Twitter user thanked the series for 'giving us back our history.'\n\nIn the end, [as one commentator concludes](https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2019\/06\/04\/putins-media-struggle-to-deal-with-hbos-chernobyl-a65866), the main reason for the backlash is likely a feeling of shame that it was the US that told the tale of Chernobyl, not Russia itself.\n\n![Presentational grey line](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/1226D\/production\/_105894347_grey_line-nc.png.webp)\n\nThe show has been particularly unpopular with Russian state TV and the country's tabloid newspapers.\n\n- [Chernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-47227767)\n- [The people who moved to the Chernobyl exclusion zone](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/resources\/idt-sh\/moving_to_Chernobyl)\n\nThis, he continued, was not because \"they don't like us\" but because \"they simply cannot understand us\".\n\nKomsomolskaya Pravda published several negative articles about the show - including one floating a conspiracy theory that [it was produced by competitors of Rosatom](https:\/\/www.kp.ru\/daily\/26981.7\/4039993\/), Russia's state nuclear company, to ruin the country's reputation as a nuclear power.\n\n![Sky UK\/HBO Chernobyl on Sky Atlantic](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/D105\/production\/_106790535_a12c3ae6-7803-424a-8a23-020c940b3d8a.jpg.webp)Sky UK\/HBO\n\nThe show has been praised for its attention to detail\n\nBut reviewers in independent media outlets praised its writer Craig Mazin for his minute attention to detail.\n\n\"Like I see the license plate for a car in one scene has the real numbers for the \\[Kiev\\] region,\" he said. \"Who's going to notice that in America or England?\"\n\n![Presentational grey line](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/1226D\/production\/_105894347_grey_line-nc.png.webp)\n\nA challenge to rosy views of Russia's past\n\n**Adam Robinson, BBC Monitoring - The world through its media**\n\nFor the Kremlin, the topic of history is a highly sensitive one - especially about the Soviet Union.\n\nOfficial media now tend to paint a sanitised, idealised vision of the USSR, and portray Putin's Russia as its spiritual heir.\n\nThis makes it easy to see any critical view of the Soviet past as an attack on the Kremlin's ideological power base.\n\nIt's a narrative it seeks to completely control and guard from outside influences - particularly from a West it sees as hostile.\n\nSome Russians feel the version of reality offered by Kremlin-controlled media is not entirely unlike the lies told by the Soviet state.\n\nAs a result, perhaps the most dangerous idea was the key question running though Chernobyl - what is the cost of lies?\n\n[BBC Monitoring](https:\/\/monitoring.bbc.co.uk\/) *reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. 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Boilerpipe Text	7 June 2019 Sky UK/HBO At least 31 people were killed and many more were injured in what was the world's worst nuclear power accident Russian state TV is working on its own version of Chernobyl, a series based on the worst nuclear accident in history. The NTV drama will deviate from the acclaimed HBO series - and from historical reality - by claiming that the CIA was involved in the disaster. Director Aleksey Muradov claims it will show "what really happened back then". HBO's miniseries, which concluded on Monday, received the highest ever score for a TV show on IMdB, as well as a 9.1 rating on Russian equivalent Kinopoisk. "There is a theory that Americans infiltrated the Chernobyl nuclear power plant," he told the paper. "Many historians do not rule out the possibility that on the day of the explosion, an agent of the enemy's intelligence services was working at the station." Chernobyl disaster: 'I didn't know the truth' Will Gompertz reviews Chernobyl The Hollywood Reporter reports that the Russian culture ministry has contributed 30 million rubles ($463,000; £363,000) to the show. The No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded on 26 April 1986 in the Ukrainian city of Pripyat. At least 31 people were killed in the immediate aftermath, and the effects continue to be felt to this day. What did Russia think of HBO's Chernobyl? There has been plenty of praise in Russia for the authenticity of Chernobyl. Izvestia newspaper declared it a more 'realistic' portrayal of the era than most Russian films manage. There's also admiration of how the series conveys the heroism of ordinary people. But there's been a crescendo of criticism, too. One columnist declared the show a plot to undermine Russia's current atomic agency. Others called it American 'propaganda', blackening the image of the USSR and exaggerating the callousness of the Soviet response. No-one disputes that it's got people talking. They're been busy sharing their own Chernobyl stories on social media, with younger Russians often hearing them for the first time. So one Twitter user thanked the series for 'giving us back our history.' In the end, as one commentator concludes , the main reason for the backlash is likely a feeling of shame that it was the US that told the tale of Chernobyl, not Russia itself. The show has been particularly unpopular with Russian state TV and the country's tabloid newspapers. Chernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment The people who moved to the Chernobyl exclusion zone This, he continued, was not because "they don't like us" but because "they simply cannot understand us". Komsomolskaya Pravda published several negative articles about the show - including one floating a conspiracy theory that it was produced by competitors of Rosatom , Russia's state nuclear company, to ruin the country's reputation as a nuclear power. Sky UK/HBO The show has been praised for its attention to detail But reviewers in independent media outlets praised its writer Craig Mazin for his minute attention to detail. "Like I see the license plate for a car in one scene has the real numbers for the [Kiev] region," he said. "Who's going to notice that in America or England?" A challenge to rosy views of Russia's past Adam Robinson, BBC Monitoring - The world through its media For the Kremlin, the topic of history is a highly sensitive one - especially about the Soviet Union. Official media now tend to paint a sanitised, idealised vision of the USSR, and portray Putin's Russia as its spiritual heir. This makes it easy to see any critical view of the Soviet past as an attack on the Kremlin's ideological power base. It's a narrative it seeks to completely control and guard from outside influences - particularly from a West it sees as hostile. Some Russians feel the version of reality offered by Kremlin-controlled media is not entirely unlike the lies told by the Soviet state. As a result, perhaps the most dangerous idea was the key question running though Chernobyl - what is the cost of lies? BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook .
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The NTV drama will deviate from the acclaimed HBO series - and from historical reality - by claiming that the CIA was involved in the disaster. Director Aleksey Muradov claims it will show "what really happened back then". HBO's miniseries, which concluded on Monday, received the highest ever score for a TV show on IMdB, as well as a 9.1 rating on Russian equivalent Kinopoisk. But in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, Russia's most widely-read tabloid, Mr Muradov said his version of the show "[proposes an alternative view on the tragedy in Pripyat](https://www.kp.ru/daily/26883/3927378/)". "There is a theory that Americans infiltrated the Chernobyl nuclear power plant," he told the paper. "Many historians do not rule out the possibility that on the day of the explosion, an agent of the enemy's intelligence services was working at the station." - [Chernobyl disaster: 'I didn't know the truth'](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48090834) - [Will Gompertz reviews Chernobyl](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48152005) The Hollywood Reporter reports that the Russian culture ministry has contributed 30 million rubles (\$463,000; £363,000) to the show. The No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded on 26 April 1986 in the Ukrainian city of Pripyat. At least 31 people were killed in the immediate aftermath, and the effects continue to be felt to this day. ![Presentational grey line](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/1226D/production/_105894347_grey_line-nc.png.webp) ## What did Russia think of HBO's Chernobyl? ![Analysis box by Sarah Rainsford, Moscow correspondent](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/DEE3/production/_107295075_sarahrainsford-nc.png.webp) There has been plenty of praise in Russia for the authenticity of Chernobyl. Izvestia newspaper declared it a more 'realistic' portrayal of the era than most Russian films manage. There's also admiration of how the series conveys the heroism of ordinary people. But there's been a crescendo of criticism, too. One columnist declared the show a plot to undermine Russia's current atomic agency. Others called it American 'propaganda', blackening the image of the USSR and exaggerating the callousness of the Soviet response. No-one disputes that it's got people talking. They're been busy sharing their own Chernobyl stories on social media, with younger Russians often hearing them for the first time. So one Twitter user thanked the series for 'giving us back our history.' In the end, [as one commentator concludes](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/06/04/putins-media-struggle-to-deal-with-hbos-chernobyl-a65866), the main reason for the backlash is likely a feeling of shame that it was the US that told the tale of Chernobyl, not Russia itself. ![Presentational grey line](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/1226D/production/_105894347_grey_line-nc.png.webp) The show has been particularly unpopular with Russian state TV and the country's tabloid newspapers. Speaking to TV website Teleprogramma, columnist Anatoly Wasserman said: "If Anglo-Saxons film something about Russians, [it definitely will not correspond to the truth](https://teleprogramma.pro/tele/series/1065726-vasserman-nazval-serial-chernobyl-ne-sootvetstvuyushchim-3483/)." - [Chernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47227767) - [The people who moved to the Chernobyl exclusion zone](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/moving_to_Chernobyl) This, he continued, was not because "they don't like us" but because "they simply cannot understand us". Komsomolskaya Pravda published several negative articles about the show - including one floating a conspiracy theory that [it was produced by competitors of Rosatom](https://www.kp.ru/daily/26981.7/4039993/), Russia's state nuclear company, to ruin the country's reputation as a nuclear power. ![Sky UK/HBO Chernobyl on Sky Atlantic](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/D105/production/_106790535_a12c3ae6-7803-424a-8a23-020c940b3d8a.jpg.webp)Sky UK/HBO The show has been praised for its attention to detail But reviewers in independent media outlets praised its writer Craig Mazin for his minute attention to detail. Slava Malamud, a US-based journalist who grew up during the Soviet era in what is now Moldova, wrote on the independent Russian news site Meduza that "[the respect and meticulousness the show's creators brought to their work is breathtaking](https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/05/30/i-was-there-and-i-don-t-want-to-watch-this-anymore)". "Like I see the license plate for a car in one scene has the real numbers for the \[Kiev\] region," he said. "Who's going to notice that in America or England?" ![Presentational grey line](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/1226D/production/_105894347_grey_line-nc.png.webp) ## A challenge to rosy views of Russia's past Adam Robinson, BBC Monitoring - The world through its media For the Kremlin, the topic of history is a highly sensitive one - especially about the Soviet Union. Official media now tend to paint a sanitised, idealised vision of the USSR, and portray Putin's Russia as its spiritual heir. This makes it easy to see any critical view of the Soviet past as an attack on the Kremlin's ideological power base. It's a narrative it seeks to completely control and guard from outside influences - particularly from a West it sees as hostile. Some Russians feel the version of reality offered by Kremlin-controlled media is not entirely unlike the lies told by the Soviet state. 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Readable Markdown	7 June 2019 ![Sky UK/HBO Chernobyl on Sky Atlantic](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/103EA/production/_106783566_053706463-1.jpg.webp)Sky UK/HBO At least 31 people were killed and many more were injured in what was the world's worst nuclear power accident Russian state TV is working on its own version of Chernobyl, a series based on the worst nuclear accident in history. The NTV drama will deviate from the acclaimed HBO series - and from historical reality - by claiming that the CIA was involved in the disaster. Director Aleksey Muradov claims it will show "what really happened back then". HBO's miniseries, which concluded on Monday, received the highest ever score for a TV show on IMdB, as well as a 9.1 rating on Russian equivalent Kinopoisk. "There is a theory that Americans infiltrated the Chernobyl nuclear power plant," he told the paper. "Many historians do not rule out the possibility that on the day of the explosion, an agent of the enemy's intelligence services was working at the station." - [Chernobyl disaster: 'I didn't know the truth'](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48090834) - [Will Gompertz reviews Chernobyl](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48152005) The Hollywood Reporter reports that the Russian culture ministry has contributed 30 million rubles (\$463,000; £363,000) to the show. The No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded on 26 April 1986 in the Ukrainian city of Pripyat. At least 31 people were killed in the immediate aftermath, and the effects continue to be felt to this day. ![Presentational grey line](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/1226D/production/_105894347_grey_line-nc.png.webp) What did Russia think of HBO's Chernobyl? ![Analysis box by Sarah Rainsford, Moscow correspondent](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/DEE3/production/_107295075_sarahrainsford-nc.png.webp) There has been plenty of praise in Russia for the authenticity of Chernobyl. Izvestia newspaper declared it a more 'realistic' portrayal of the era than most Russian films manage. There's also admiration of how the series conveys the heroism of ordinary people. But there's been a crescendo of criticism, too. One columnist declared the show a plot to undermine Russia's current atomic agency. Others called it American 'propaganda', blackening the image of the USSR and exaggerating the callousness of the Soviet response. No-one disputes that it's got people talking. They're been busy sharing their own Chernobyl stories on social media, with younger Russians often hearing them for the first time. So one Twitter user thanked the series for 'giving us back our history.' In the end, [as one commentator concludes](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/06/04/putins-media-struggle-to-deal-with-hbos-chernobyl-a65866), the main reason for the backlash is likely a feeling of shame that it was the US that told the tale of Chernobyl, not Russia itself. ![Presentational grey line](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/1226D/production/_105894347_grey_line-nc.png.webp) The show has been particularly unpopular with Russian state TV and the country's tabloid newspapers. - [Chernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47227767) - [The people who moved to the Chernobyl exclusion zone](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/moving_to_Chernobyl) This, he continued, was not because "they don't like us" but because "they simply cannot understand us". Komsomolskaya Pravda published several negative articles about the show - including one floating a conspiracy theory that [it was produced by competitors of Rosatom](https://www.kp.ru/daily/26981.7/4039993/), Russia's state nuclear company, to ruin the country's reputation as a nuclear power. ![Sky UK/HBO Chernobyl on Sky Atlantic](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/D105/production/_106790535_a12c3ae6-7803-424a-8a23-020c940b3d8a.jpg.webp)Sky UK/HBO The show has been praised for its attention to detail But reviewers in independent media outlets praised its writer Craig Mazin for his minute attention to detail. "Like I see the license plate for a car in one scene has the real numbers for the \[Kiev\] region," he said. "Who's going to notice that in America or England?" ![Presentational grey line](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/1226D/production/_105894347_grey_line-nc.png.webp) A challenge to rosy views of Russia's past Adam Robinson, BBC Monitoring - The world through its media For the Kremlin, the topic of history is a highly sensitive one - especially about the Soviet Union. Official media now tend to paint a sanitised, idealised vision of the USSR, and portray Putin's Russia as its spiritual heir. This makes it easy to see any critical view of the Soviet past as an attack on the Kremlin's ideological power base. It's a narrative it seeks to completely control and guard from outside influences - particularly from a West it sees as hostile. Some Russians feel the version of reality offered by Kremlin-controlled media is not entirely unlike the lies told by the Soviet state. As a result, perhaps the most dangerous idea was the key question running though Chernobyl - what is the cost of lies? [BBC Monitoring](https://monitoring.bbc.co.uk/) reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/BBCMonitoring) and [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/BBCMonitoring).
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