Both spellings are correct—they’re just in different languages. Chernóbil (Spanish) is also correct, but you probably wouldn’t point it out because it’s not Russian.
It was decided years ago, but some politicians and shareholders decided it was a good opportunity to exploit. Also the Russian economy was supposed to collapse few years ago because of UE sanctions. Still waiting for that to happen.
You know, man, you should complete your joke and suggest that, following the Far East cities of Russia, the rest of Russia should also start using Chinese spelling.
While "Chornobyl" is the current official Ukrainian spelling of the city name, the catastrophe itself took place at the "Chernobyl NPP" and the zone is consequentially named "Chernobyl Exclusion Zone".
>Of all Chernobyl dog populations, dogs from Slavutych show the greatest haplotype sharing with purebred dogs, particularly with the Labrador retriever, boxer, and Yorkshire terrier
While i can understand Labrador and boxer, where is the Yorkshire comes from? For anybody who remembers dogs in 1986 in USSR you can hardly remember seeing any Yorkshire (or any other small breed really).
I want to hear about the cats of Chernobyl! I read in a book that "domesticated" cats are essentially the same as wild cats, they just have different habits because of the way they are raised. That suggests to me that in the absence of a human population (and the right climate) some would survive in the wild.
Wild house cats are called feral cats. They exist all over. They are extremely fearful and/or avoidant of humans. And by "all over" I mean in cities, living among us. A dog, that is lost in a city will invariably find a human to take it in. Sometimes cats will do that, but cats are pickier about their humans than most dogs are. The first generation of cats born in the while will essentially become completely wild once they are adults and the chances of domesticating them is very low.
I, too, would love to see and hear about the cats of Chernobyl.
My cat spends 99% of her time outside. She likes to come in and hang out with my kids when they get home from school and take a quick nap, but then she's asking to be let out by the time we're eating dinner.
She'd rather be exploring, hunting mice/chipmunks, and fighting off raccoons and skunks for her food and water supply.
After doing a bit more reading about this topic, I'd be really interested to see a follow-up study that includes samples of the local wolf population. Supposedly, one of the reasons the dogs all hang around the power plant is because they get driven out of the woods by wolves. I wonder if there is any genetic cross-over between them.
Since 2017, organizations like the Clean Futures Fund have been providing veterinary care, including vaccination, spaying, and neutering, to manage the dog population and reduce disease transmission risks
