As our regular readers know, correspondent Grigory Pasko spent much of last year touring the length of the planned route for the Nord Stream pipeline, writing articles, interviewing communities which would be affected, and even making a short documentary film.  .  Below is a translation of a review about the film, Buried at Sea, published in the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau.  If you visit the paper’s site, you can watch two clips from the film.

Film about the Baltic Sea Pipeline
“Buried At Sea”
By Viktor Funk

Oleg Tishin seems tired, depleted, exhausted – he is the head of government at Rayon Babayevo in northern Russia, where the first section of the Baltic Sea pipeline North Stream was opened amidst fanfare in December 2005. When the Russian journalist Grigory Pasko interviewed him for his film “Buried at Sea” in June 2007 there was nothing left of the joy surrounding the gas lines. Tishin explains that at the beginning there was a lot of engagement for the project, because it promised jobs and the people of the village hoped to finally get a gas connection. Disillusionment quickly replaced their hopes, as the gas was destined for the west and the villagers of Babayevo had to continue to use their forest for their energy needs.