While working for Boyevaya Vakhta Grigory Pasko thoroughly studied the problems of Pacific Fleet, visited practically all units and sites of the fleet, participated in long cruises. Grigory Pasko is Lieutenant-colonel, awarded with the medal For Distiction in Military Service 1st grade. Winner of Literary prize of the Primorsky Krai, winner of the Prize of the Russian Union of Journalists, International Journalist Union. Russian writers Union. Author and cameraman of videofilms about radioactive wastes at the Pacific Naval Fleet. 
     Has publications in the central military and civilian newspapers of Russia, literary and poetic books. Main message of publications - the problem of utilization of the written off service nuclear powered submarines and processing of the wastes of nuclear fuel. 
     All publications were approved by the editor in compliance with the established order. G. Pasko also collaborated with Japanese agencies: newspaper Asakhi and TV company NHK. 

     On November 13, 1997 before his flight to Japan for a service trip in Vladivostok Airport Pasko was deprived of all materials he had on him. All documents were not restricted. 

     The Prosecution accused the Journalist of "the collection and holding of data that contain state secret with the intention to disclose it". FSB (Federal Security Sevice) has many times repeated that Pasko rendered services to foreigners for big rewards. In fact, Pasko collaborated with Japanese news agencies and received legitimate fees. But he was writing and shooting (video) - as a journalist - only what he felt he must tell the society. 

    On August 27, 1998 there was a hearing of the G. Pasko's claim to the Japanese TV Company NHK about the violation of copyright and compensation of moral damage. 
     The matter is that secret services accused Pasko with the fact that the military journalist without any formal document or other agreement made available to officials of the Vladivostok representative office of the  NHK excerpts from his documentary videofilm The Zone of Higher Danger that was shown on the Japanese TV contrary to the agreement that the film may be shown in Japan only after the show in Vladivostok. Thus NHK officials have violated Russian Law On Copyright and unintentionally gave reasons to FSB officials to interprete a normal international journalist cooperation - as a spy activities. 

    In November 1998 there was a hearing of the Military College of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. The Court failed to find reasons to change the preventive punishment for G. Pasko (detention), none of the documents submitted by defence was attached to the case, non of the arguments had been considered or protested in the court ruling. 

     Inhabitants of Vladivostok nominated G.Pasko as their candidate to their City Duma in January 1999. His name turned up to be the second in the List. 

    On January 18, 1999 there was a press-conference "Public and Human Rights Organisations Hand in an Application to the General Procurator of the RF Against Military and the FSB of the Pacific Fleet in Defence of Military Journalist G.M. Pasko". There for the first time a videocasette was shown. It fixed the burial of ammunitions in the Sea of Japan. This cassette was accidentally not arrested. 
     The video excerpt along with the statements of public organisations (Pasko Defence Committee, Russian Centre of the International PEN Club, The Glasnost Protection Committee) have been submitted to the office of the General Procurator. The Statement contains the request to file a criminal suit upon the fact of illegitimate utilisation of military wastes that jeopardise the ecology of the Pacific Ocean Region. 
     Public organisations believe the subject to trial must be those responsible for the pollution of the environment - the command and FSB of the Pacific Fleet, and not journalist Pasko who had been fulfilling his duty. 

     On January 18, 1999 Amnesty International recognised G. Pasko as a prisoner of conscience.