Grigory Pasko: How Much is Your Job Worth on the Corruption Market?

By Grigory Pasko | Published: September 7, 2010

A few weeks ago, a much discussed report from a group of Russian human rights activists established that the volume of corruption in the country comprises 50% of GDP, finding that law enforcement and the judicial system are the institutions most affected by this bribery. Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, […]

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Grigory Pasko: The Joys of Living Next to an Oil Refinery

By Grigory Pasko | Published: September 1, 2010

Sergey Kochkin from Orenburg writes: “Hello Grigory! I ask you to help. The essence of the problem is in the following: around our village of Kubanka of Perevolotsky rayon of Orenburg oblast are found many wells of the Orenburgneft company, not far from our village several kilometres away the Orenburgneft company built a facility for […]

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Grigory Pasko: Children’s Drawings of the Leadership

By Grigory Pasko | Published: August 31, 2010

My 12-year-old son loves to draw. Favorite subjects at different times have been Harry Potter, Spider-Man, anime, and much more. For some reason he never drew Putin, nor Medvedev either. And their wives with dogs and doves he also did not draw. I don’t think that I need to worry greatly about this and get […]

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Grigory Pasko: Viktor Bout Conspiracy Theories

By Grigory Pasko | Published: August 27, 2010

Philip Crowley, a representative of the U.S. State Department, has assured observers that the case of Viktor Bout will not impact in a negative manner the development of bilateral relations with Russia. Naturally, it’s Mr. Crowley’s duty to make sure declarations. However, in actuality, and this is obvious even to the average person, the case […]

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Grigory Pasko: A drop of bile in the barrel of Putinite honey

By Grigory Pasko | Published: August 26, 2010

There is such a news wire under the name of «Kaplya zhelchi» [A drop of bile–Trans.] There, wonderful Russian journalists, as a rule, oppositionally disposed in relation to the regime of Putin, subtly observe certain peculiarities of this regime. Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. Here the journalist and […]

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Grigory Pasko: The quiet war with the occupiers

By Grigory Pasko | Published: August 25, 2010

My acquaintance Katya Veresova, a journalist from Babayevo, told me a fascinating story. At the end of July the Babayevo district federal court issued a guilty verdict in a criminal case in relation to the chief of the Borosovo-Sudsky territorial police station of the OVD for Babayevsky rayon. The policeman was found guilty of the […]

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Grigory Pasko: Dialogue of the mannequins

By Grigory Pasko | Published:

Pre-election stories from the hagiography of the Great and Inimitable Vladimir Putin – and this has been noticed not just by me for a long time already- have begun to appear more and more often in the Russian mass information media. You may recall that earlier this summer, before he was putting out wildfires from […]

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Grigory Pasko: Danilkin, A Fall Guy for the Khodorkovsky Verdict?

By Grigory Pasko | Published: August 19, 2010

“The court, having heard the opinion of the participants in the process, considers that the motion of the state prosecutor Lakhtin on extending the term of detention of the defendants Khodorkovsky and Lebedev is grounded and subject to satisfaction,” — declared Judge Viktor Danilkin. Well, who would have doubted… Pity, of course, the nerves of […]

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Grigory Pasko: Ten Years after the Kursk

By Grigory Pasko | Published: August 12, 2010

On August 12, 2000 the Russian nuclear submarine APL “Kursk” sank in the Barents Sea during exercises of the Navy’s Northern Fleet. In so doing the entire crew of the submarine, consisting of 118 people, died. In traditional Russian fashion, an investigation was opened and a criminal case was pursued for this accident, only to […]

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Grigory Pasko: Medvedev’s Personal Instructions

By Grigory Pasko | Published: August 2, 2010

At a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in mid-July, President Dmitry Medvedev commented on the legal situation regarding the expansion of FSB powers: “The situation is simple to the extreme. But I would not want very much to comment now on those changes in legislation that are taking place in our country. […]

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