A woman adjusts a ribbon at a grave on ‘Radunitsa’ (The Day of Rejoicing), a holiday in the Eastern Orthodox Church remembering the dead, in the abandoned village of Pogonnoe, in the 30km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, some 370km southeast of Minsk. Every year villagers who left after the Chernobyl blast gather at the cemetery for one day to visit relatives’ graves, and meet former friends and neighbours.
