Grigory Pasko: On Russia’s “Unsanctioned” Political Rallies

By Grigory Pasko | Published: February 2, 2010

An unsanctioned rally – is the same kind of term as a juicy fact. Artificially thought up, pulled out of a hat by cowardly and dependent people. A rally can’t be sanctioned – according to the Constitution of the RF, it is sanctioned a priori. Sanctioned by the Constitution. And a fact – either it […]

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Grigory Pasko: Russia’s Police Become Touchable

By Grigory Pasko | Published: January 26, 2010

Recently President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the firing of Viktor Grechman, a police Major-General of the Tomsk Oblast. Serving as the motive for this, as is not difficult to guess, was the murder of local journalist Konstantin Popov, who passed away after the latest maniac-cop had given him a beating. Judging by the words of Grechman […]

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Grigory Pasko: How Rape Cases Are Investigated in Russia

By Grigory Pasko | Published: January 20, 2010

At the end of last year, the leadership of Russia’s penitentiary system announced its intention to reform itself by the year 2020. Earlier the leadership of the MVD had also indicated that they were planning to implement reforms to their operations. Even judicial officials have muttered something vague and unintelligible about reforms. And only the […]

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Grigory Pasko: The Kremlin’s Potemkin Green Movement

By Grigory Pasko | Published: January 17, 2010

Right around the same time that the world’s well-meaning politicians professed their concern for the environment at the Copenhagen conference, the Russian authorities launched their own official version of an environmental advocacy group, even including the novel and unexpected title – “the Russian green movement” (RGM). And the participants in the founding conference also talked […]

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Grigory Pasko: Saving the Tigers of the Amur

By Grigory Pasko | Published: December 31, 2009

Just a few days ago in Russia, a census of the population of the Amur tiger began in the Far East. The monitoring of the quantity of the animals will go on until the end of February, and towards the middle of March of the year 2010, scientists and ecologists intend to get new data […]

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Grigory Pasko: The longer the chain, the more you want freedom*

By Grigory Pasko | Published: December 26, 2009

I can not sit calmly and listen to the raptures of certain of my colleagues and even of certain human rights advocates on account of the declaration of the new director of the Federal Service for the Execution of Punishments (FSIN) of Russia [the current name of the agency responsible for running the country’s vast […]

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Grigory Pasko: Epaulets, Uniforms, and the Proliferation of Official Dress in Russia

By Grigory Pasko | Published: December 24, 2009

Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people in Russia wear a military or militarized form of dress. Although, common sense would dictate that they shouldn’t be wearing the uniform. For example, security guards or doctors, journalists or jurists. BUT in the cities and towns of Russia you can often encounter people in clothing that […]

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Grigory Pasko: Russia Loves its Rules

By Grigory Pasko | Published: December 21, 2009

The Public Chamber of Tomsk Oblast is proposing for broad discussion a project under the name of «Code of the Tomich» [A “Tomich” is an inhabitant of Tomsk in Russian–Trans.] You can acquaint yourself with the text of the code on the Oblast administration website. “We consider, – writ the authors (for some reason with […]

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Grigory Pasko: Obstacle cliffs

By Grigory Pasko | Published: December 19, 2009

I don’t have the slightest grounds to love Tokyo. That’s certain courts that for some reason liked a story concocted by the FSB about how I – am a Japanese spy. But the Japanese officially repudiated all court decisions relative to me and my involvement with the intelligence services of the Land of the Rising […]

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Grigory Pasko: Sochi Olympics Construction Threatens Boxwood Forest

By Grigory Pasko | Published: December 14, 2009

The construction of the facilities of the Sochi olympiad is picking up speed. So fast, indeed, that chips are beginning to fly. Together with forests, naturally. Forest preserves, ancient forests, eternally green… Incidentally, the only thing that can be eternal in our country is problems. And, as history from the times of the «best manager» […]

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