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[quote:cdc05]The accuracy of that story has since been questioned, not least because motorcycles are specifically forbidden inside the 30km reactor exclusion zone, which can only be accessed through permanently manned checkpoints. Chernobyl tour guides and tourists to Chernobyl have claimed that that Filatova visited the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone only as part of an organized tour.[2] Chernobyl tour guide Yuriy Tatarchuk recalls that Filatova "booked a tour, wore a leather biker jacket and posed for pictures." Her website appeared soon after.[3]

Around May 16, 2004, Filatova posted to her website that she was "being accused that it was more poetry in this story then reality. I partly accept this accusation, it still was more reality then poetry"; by May 24 she had removed the note.[4]

Regardless of the degree of Elena's actual personal involvement or the reliability of her narrative, the photos themselves still hold interest for many viewers. While some of them could have been staged to a degree (it is noticeable that there are no photographs of her motorcycle inside the abandoned town of Pripyat), she could not have staged the whole ghost town. In any case, all photographs now taken in the region by even the most conscientious photographer are to some extent "set up" because props have been placed by previous photographers around the town. While there are numerous accounts of the consequences of the catastrophe, Elena's account presents it to the world in a novel way.[/quote:cdc05]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Filatova