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A New Elena Story

Posted by michael on from the old-trees-full-of-iron dept.

SwiftBoy writes "Elena, of motorcycling through Chernobyl fame has gone riding again, this time to dig up the history of Kiev's fortifications. Interesting that after 60 years all that stuff is still there."

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  1. Here's the earlier Slashdot story on her by xmas2003 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Previousely discussed back in March/2004

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  2. Re:Wasn't she the one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    What was supposedly fake about it anyway?
    Supposedly the areas that she was motorcycling in and out of aren't actually open to the public. What was allegedly fake about it was that she'd just taken some pictures of herself on a motorcycle on the highway and then interspersed them with file photos of Cheronobyl's abandoned areas, then presented them as a photo diary of a trip that never happened.

  3. Re:No, that's not accurate by aWalrus · · Score: 4, Informative

    The area is heavily guarded, apparently. Someone stirred up a ruckus when they saw her story on the net and took it up against the guards. Eventually it turned out that she had taken a helmet with her on one of the usual (legal) tours and took pictures with that. She also changed her story after the allegations of fraud surfaced (at first, she claimed that her dad was a worker in the zone, and that she routinely biked there)

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