Guest of the ilb 2005
Grigori M. Pasko worked as a military journalist
for the Russian Pacific floats. After a Japanese television station
broadcast his film »Highest Danger Zones«, which showed how a tanker
belonging to the Russian navy disposed of radioactive waste in the
Japanese Sea, Pasko was accused of high treason and spying and later
convicted.
In 2006, his book »Die rote Zone« (t: The red zone) appeared in
Germany, containing three autobiographical cycles of diaries that Pasko
wrote while being imprisoned. »The Red Zone« records his attempt at
keeping his personal integrity in the Russian prisons and deals with
the structures of power in the Russian society ruled by Yeltsin and
Putin.
»Reporters Without Borders« awarded Pasko (who did not find a publisher
for his book in Russia) the Human Rights Prize in 2002. Pasko is the
editor of the Russian newspaper »Environment and Law«, he has taught
Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at the Woodrow Wilson Institute
and is a member of the Russian P.E.N.
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