Grigory Pasko: The Conservationist Struggle for Lake Baikal
The wonderful poet and writer Sasha Raduzhkevich, who left life early, once called everything taking place in Russia «the struggle of a struggle with a struggle».
Indeed, in our country everything is a struggle: from evicting militants from the hideouts long inhabited by them to evicting the summer cottagers of the settlement of «Rechnik». And that’s not even mentioning the struggle with drunkenness, corruption, «enemies of the people», dissident thought, the opposition…
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The struggle with something has the peculiarity of repeating itself with maniacal cyclicism. It seems that not very long ago at all Russians were already struggling for the saving of Lake Baikal, yet already once again, literally since the beginning of the new year of 2010, we are forced to write letters to the address of the latest president. Greenpeace writes: