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From: "Marcus Warren" <markusw@rinet.ru>
Subject: Tribute to Dmitry Pinsker
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002
I wanted to draw the attention of the JRL readership to the tragic death last week of Dmitry Pinsker, political editor of the recently launched Ezhenedelny Zhurnal.
To describe Dima as one of the most outstanding journalists of his generation is to tell but half the story. I knew he was a relative youngster but, like many, I was astonished to learn that he was a mere 30 years old when he died. And yet in a career that lasted little more than a decade he emerged as one of the most astute, well informed, best connected and independent-minded journalists covering Russian politics. Full stop. Of any generation. He was also a highly generous colleague, a wit and a joker. His prose was recognised as having few equals for its style or facility.
His family, friends, colleagues and an impressive selection of big names from the Kremlin, White House and the Duma paid their last respects to Dima at the House of Actors on the Arbat on Friday. Among those who spoke were Sergei Parkhomenko (his editor-in-chief for the last six years), Sergei Buntman of Ekho Moskvy, Sergei Dorenko, Konstantin Eggert and Danila Galperovich of the BBC's Russian Service, Alexander Zhukov and Sergei Yushenkov from the Duma and Vladimir Mau. There were others too.
Below is a link to a fuller obituary (in Russian) on the Zhurnal website. It includes bank details for those who would like to help Dima's widow and three children.
http://www.ej.ru/002/tema/pinsker/index.html_Printed.html
May I also make a small suggestion? JRL readers involved in supporting the Russian media might care to name new scholarships, prizes or grants in his honour. Would there were no need to remember him this way!
Marcus Warren
Moscow Correspondent
Daily Telegraph
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