Grigory Pasko: A Trip to the Thürmer Woods

By Grigory Pasko | Published: December 9, 2009

Russia’s vast, beautiful woodlands are indeed a national treasure, symbolizing the rugged solitude and simple happiness of the collective imagination.  Like in Leonid Filatov’s fairy tale of Fedot the Archer, we all dream of getting a job as a forester. Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. This past summer […]

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Grigory Pasko: Russian Media and the Green Movement

By Grigory Pasko | Published: December 8, 2009

“The support of the press is imperative to the nature-protection agencies,” said Alexander Malyshevsky, Chairman of the Public Council Under the Federal Service for Oversight in the Sphere of Nature Use, quoted by lenizdat.ru during a recent session speech. In his turn at this same session, the editor-in-chief of the magazine “Ekos”, Viktor Rudeko, declared […]

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Grigory Pasko: The Perm Nightclub Fire

By Grigory Pasko | Published: December 6, 2009

According to preliminary data, 110 people died because of the fire in the nightclub in Perm. Over 100 are considered wounded and victims. Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. In all, there were 233 people spending a night out at the Lame Horse nightclub, situated in the center of […]

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Grigory Pasko: Déjà Vu with Putin in Paris

By Grigory Pasko | Published: November 30, 2009

I’m listening to Putin, who’s in Paris, and I’m thinking: either I’ve got déjà vu, or he’s got it… Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. Paris. 27 November 2009. Mr. V.Putin’s press conference. An answer to a journalist’s question on account of the confined-in-jail M.Khodorkovsky: “In our country the […]

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Grigory Pasko: The Gulag Unconcious

By Grigory Pasko | Published: November 25, 2009

The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung wrote : “He who has achieved a perception of reality is inevitably solitary” [This is a translation of the Russian version of Jung’s essay “The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man”. The standard English version reads somewhat differently: “The man whom we can with justice call ‘modern’ is solitary”–Trans.].   Если […]

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Grigory Pasko: Yuri Luzhkov’s Water Grab

By Grigory Pasko | Published: November 23, 2009

Water – the oil and gas of the not-too-distant future What’s news is this: «The world community is hoping that Russia will soon become a supplier to the countries of Europe not only of energy inputs, but of fresh water as well. About this has already been spoken at a January conference under the patronage […]

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Grigory Pasko: Journalists Are Fleeing Russia

By Grigory Pasko | Published: November 20, 2009

Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. A well-known Russian journalist, head of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations  Oleg Panfilov in early November moved for permanent residency from Moscow to Tbilisi. In a conversation with journalists he explained that his decision was based on the fact that in […]

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Grigory Pasko: Disturbance Factor

By Grigory Pasko | Published: November 19, 2009

They were shooting…Yesterday. In the forest. In Vladimir Oblast. A shot thundered practically right over my head. Luckily for me and for the duck flushed from the mirror-like marsh, the hunter missed. Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. By the way, they were shooting for certain, not only yesterday […]

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PASKO: I can’t take any more of the powers’ optimism

By Grigory Pasko | Published: November 13, 2009

Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. I was listening to our president and recalled Jerzy Lec: “I am so full of optimism that I can’t take any more of it.” What didn’t Dmitry Medvedev promise us! “Intolerance toward corruption…improvement of housing conditions…nurturing of the personality already in school…normalisation of […]

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Pasko: Dvorishchi ain’t no Cape Town

By Grigory Pasko | Published: November 10, 2009

The last week of October was a tense time for the bureaucrats at Minprirody, Russia’s Ministry for the Protection of the Environment and Natural Resources, and naturally for Minister Yuri Petrovich Trutnev. He went all the way to Cape Town, South Africa to participate in the work of the eighth session of the mixed intergovernmental […]

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