Grigory Pasko

Grigory Pasko Mikhailovich (Russian Григорий Михайлович Пасько, scientific transliteration Grigorii Michajlovič Pas'ko; born May 19, 1962 in Kreschtschenowka in the Kherson Oblast, Soviet Union ) is a Russian journalist and editor of an environmental magazine.

Life

Pasko was born the son of a village teacher. He graduated in 1983 the Faculty of journalistic Military Academy in Lviv and ended in 1993 training as an editor at a Russian military university. His career in the Russian army, he began as a correspondent. In 1983 he was Member of the CPSU from 1983 to 1997 he was editor of the newspaper Combat Wacht (Russian: Боевая вахта ), a publication of the stationed in the Pacific fleet.

Condemnation

In November 1997, Pasko was arrested and charged with espionage after he published articles on environmental problems in the Japanese press, and had filmed dumping nuclear waste by a Russian military ship into the Sea of ​​Japan. For this he was sentenced in July 1999 to three years in prison for abuse of office and conditionally set by an amnesty released. In June 2001, raised Russia's Supreme Military Court in this judgment and put a retrial on. The following month, Pasko was released from the army and worked as an editor of Novaya Gazeta. In December 2001 he was sentenced to four years in prison for treason under deprivation of military rank and medals. In 2003 he was released from prison.

Publicist

Pasko is a member of the Russian PEN center and lives in Vladivostok. He wrote two books about his imprisonment and the Russian judicial system. Article by him published on the website of Robert R. Amsterdam, the international law of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. They mainly deal with the Russian state system, and the Baltic Sea pipeline. From the latter also his first film (2009) is.

Due to a severe way related illness Pasko was treated in Germany 2008, Reporters Without Borders collected for donations.

Honors

Pasko 1989 he received the medal for first degree Excellent leadership in military service (Russian: За отличие в воинской службе ). The organization Reporters Without Borders drew Pasko 2002 with its Human Rights Award. In the same year Pasko was awarded the prize for the freedom and future of the media, the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig for his coverage of the illegal nuclear waste disposal by the Russian army. In 2007, he won the special prize for the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize for his prison diary, the red zone.

Works

  • The red zone - a prison diary, Wallenstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006
  • Honey cake - a guide to survive behind bars, Wallenstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006
  • Buried At Sea, film about the Nord Stream pipeline, 2009
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