October 8, 2008 By Grigory Pasko

Grigory Pasko: Interview with Russian Environmental Activist Alexey Yablokov

Yablokov-2100808Alexey Yablokov: “Not all greens have been able to find themselves a place on the vertical of power” Interview by Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. Alexey Yablokov – professor, correspondent-member of the Russian academy of sciences, honorary foreign member of the American academy of arts and sciences. Ecologist, biologist, author and co-author of over 25 monographs. In the years 1991-1993 – advisor to the president of Russia on ecology and health care, chairman o the government Commission on the problem of the dumping of radioactive wastes in seas. President of the Center of ecological policy of Russia (until the year 2005). Chairman (2005) of the party Union of Greens of Russia (Green Russia), since June 2006 – chairman of the Fraction Green Russia in the Russian united democratic party Yabloko. Here is the opinion of party colleagues: “Alexey Vladimirovich, famous for his democratic (in the best sense of this word) views, a person with an unblemished reputation, having never bowed his head before the powerful of this world, one of the few who has been in power and has come out of it of his own free will with exactly what he had going in (in the sense of regalia, finances, real estate). He became involved in party-building, by his words, out of desperation. He simply could not do otherwise. Photo: Alexey Vladimirovich Yablokov, one of the leading lights of the Russian environmental movement (photo by Grigory Pasko)