PARK CITY (AFP): The Chernobyl nuclear disaster was ordered deliberately by Moscow as a coverup to distract attention from a failed weapons project. That’s the seemingly wild-eyed conspiracy theory behind a highly topical new film that takes direct aim at Russia, including over its post-Soviet aggression. ‘The Russian Woodpecker,’ screened at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend, tells the tale of a Ukrainian artist’s bid to find out what actually caused the 1986 catastrophe in the then Soviet republic.
 And its US director Chad Gracia uses the personal story to warn of the dangers by Russia’s continued warmongering in its former sphere, over three decades after the end of the Cold War.