this is how it will go

September 16, 2020 by drbyos

Posted on Monday, September 14, 2020 at 5:27 p.m.

By Didier Schyns

Standard de Liège has finally communicated on the terms of the supporters’ return to the Maurice Dufrasne stadium this Sunday against Kortrijk. Many measures have been put in place to ensure that the reception of spectators takes place in the best conditions. Unfortunately, there will not be 10,000 supporters as expected.

Standard – FC Bala Town, Thursday, having been decreed behind closed doors, Liège supporters will be able to make their comeback in Sclessin on Sunday (4 p.m.) against Kortrijk. But they will not be 10,000, as was envisaged in the agreement concluded at the end of August between Willy Demeyer, the mayor of Liège, and Bruno Venanzi, the president of Standard. The plan was a little too ambitious and was revised downwards, on the basis, as desired by the competent minister, of bubbles of 400 people per (sub) event. As a result, 7,500 fans will take their seats in the stands of the Maurice Dufrasne stadium, including in the two blocks usually reserved for visiting supporters (who will not be there). This means, on the basis of the 22,000 subscriptions passed, that a subscriber will be able to attend one in three matches. Or a little more if the Ultras and the PHK maintain their refusal to go to the stadium in the name of the principle of “everyone or nobody”.

In the meantime, in consultation with the Rouches Family, a procedure has been organized, which those who wish to attend Standard-Kortrijk will have to follow to the letter (see on Standard.be). What to remember? That each subscriber benefit from a priority period, from this Tuesday 8 p.m. to Thursday 8 p.m., in order to reserve his seats. Clearly, the principle of first registered, first served will prevail, knowing that during Zulte Waregem’s visit the following week, priority will be given to those who could not attend Standard-Kortrijk. Even if the figures will be reassessed according to the evolution of the health situation.

Epidemiologist The value of handling the Indonesian pandemic does not comply with standards

August 19, 2020 by drbyos

Jakarta, Nusantaratv.com – The Indonesian Epidemiologists Association (PAEI) views the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic from the outset as ineffective.

According to them, many things are considered not in accordance with standard methods of handling the corona virus outbreak.

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This was conveyed by PAEI to Minister of Health Terawan Agus Putranto through a letter they sent.

“It is necessary to increase the number of suspects tested in accordance with comprehensive surveillance methods through contact tracing and surveillance of suspects to improve the performance of case finding on target,” PAEI stated, Monday (17/8/2020).

“The Ministry of Health should immediately conduct a comprehensive evaluation and determine the next steps so that this pandemic can be controlled according to standard epidemiological methodologies,” added PAEI’s statement.

PEAI has made the government pay attention to the death rate of Covid-19 cases in the country. Because the numbers are quite high, and there is no sign that the pandemic will end.

“The results of the epidemiological analysis show that the pandemic period which lasted for more than five months has no signs of ending. Even in the last two weeks of August, cases have continued to increase in several areas,” said PAEI.

“Since the initial case was announced by the President of the Republic of Indonesia on March 2, 2020, the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 up to August 16, 2020 was 137,468 with a death of 6,071 (CFR 4.4 percent) with a cure of 66.4 percent. CFR Indonesia 2.2 times. higher than Southeast Asia, “added PAEI. (Seconds)

the chances that Perm Region will be lifted are high

June 29, 2020 by drbyos

On June 30, a meeting of the operational headquarters should be held in the Perm Territory, at which the possibility of removing a number of restrictions will be discussed. Two consecutive days – June 28 and 29 – the distribution coefficient of coronavirus in Prikamye is 0.79. This is one of the important indicators of the phased lifting of restrictions – for the second stage, it should be less than 0.8.

In addition, over the past three days, 510 beds were additionally re-profiled for COVID-19 treatment in the province. The indicator “availability of free bed fund” amounted to 67.7 percent.

– Over the past two days, key indicators have been kept in the Kama region at the level of standards for moving to the second stage of lifting restrictive measures, – said Sergey Nikiforov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Perm Territory, in charge of healthcare. – This allows us to discuss the draft plan for the transition to the second stage.

At the second stage, street cafes, museums and exhibition halls, shopping centers up to 800 square meters, children’s clubs, public organizations, research institutes, playgrounds and kindergartens, including private ones, will be opened.

As a source in the operational headquarters told Komsomolskaya Pravda, the chances are high that the second stage in the Perm Territory will begin on July 1.

“No need to hide from the virus in a cocoon!” – Perm epidemiologist about the current situation

Mes: EU, no monitoring or adjustment of accounts – Europe

May 7, 2020 by drbyos

BRUSSELS – The EU Commission will not carry out any further mission, in addition to the standard ones of the European Semester, to verify the expenses related to the Mes, and will not make any request for macroeconomic adjustment, not even ex post, to the countries that ask for aid: the commissioners write it Dombrovskis and Gentiloni in a letter to the president of the Eurogroup Centeno, which clarifies the type of monitoring that Brussels will carry out on the new credit line.

The analysis of the sustainability of the Italian debt “indicates that, despite the risks, the debt remains sustainable in the medium term, also thanks to important mitigating factors” such as the debt profile, with average maturities of 8 years that mitigate the risks of temporary increases of rates. So “even if the debt deteriorates due to the COVID-19 crisis, the debt / GDP ratio in the baseline scenario remains on a downward path in the medium term”. The EU Commission writes it.

The impact of the pandemic “poses risks for the financial stability of the Eurozone, but at the same time the economic situation is fundamentally solid “, writes the Commission in the assessment of suitability to the Mes called to make in view of the new credit line. In all 19 countries of the euro zone” public debts are sustainable, will be maintained access to markets on reasonable terms, nobody is in debt or deficit procedure and there are no solvency problems for the ECB in the banking sector “.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and the president of the commission EU Ursula von der Leyen had a telephone conversation today focused on the preparation of the Recovery Fund and on the negotiation path related to the next Multiannual Financial Framework. This was announced by Palazzo Chigi.

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“Three Women”, letters of nobility in the Age of Enlightenment

April 22, 2020 by drbyos

What bond then unites these three women of the XVIII^e century? The first, Madame du Deffand, little known to the general public, has gone down in history for its qualities as a salt shaker. The second, Mrs. Roland, owes her notoriety to the fact of having exclaimed, it is said, in front of the scaffold: “Freedom, what crimes we commit in your name!” and his talent as a painter immortalized the third, Madame Vigée Le Brun. It is the relationship to the letter writing of each that is the source of this book, while none, says historian Cécile Berly, plans to become a writer, out of respect for the gender norms that make them unthinkable this ambition. However, the work shows that if writing is not only part of their daily lives – like that of most bourgeois women, who are required to maintain family and social relationships – this activity is, for them, essential, linked to their personality and their inscription to the world.

For Madame du Deffand, the letter is a remedy for boredom, whose conversations in her living room are not enough to protect it; moreover, oral and written complement each other, because it is not uncommon for his correspondence – the very rich correspondence with Voltaire – to be read aloud, during the afternoons and evenings on rue Saint-Dominique. The hostess embodies the “Pure French spirit” alongside its regulars, the biggest names in the Age of Enlightenment. The decline in the reputation of her meetings, competed by those of Julie de Lespinasse, so long close to her because responsible for palliating the blindness of the elderly letter writer, increases her melancholy; only the letter saves her from despair, especially if she becomes in love in exchanges with a young English aristocrat.

Quite different is the character of Madame Roland, who, from her childhood, amazed with her intellectual capacities and her taste for freedom which would keep her from her monastic temptation. The emotional letters to her friends from her youth are followed by political letters: it is through writing that she engages in the Revolution. Therefore, in love with ancient culture, admiring the Romans, it “See the letter as a forum” ; tracts, petitions, newspapers are added to inform and influence his fellow citizens. The exacerbation of her patriotism even leads her to present herself as “The wife of Cato”. The author sees it as proof that, outside of the Revolution, Manon Roland no longer exists. However, the era was surprisingly respectful of the genre: in the living room of the couple who, from 1791, united the radical left, she was the only woman admitted but remained silent there! So, until the dawn of her execution, she wrote against the bloodthirsty madness of the Revolution.

Because her art entirely inhabits her, Madame Vigée Le Brun only takes up her pen in moments of doubt or anger; exile transforms his writing practice into an astonishing extension of his painting. Supporting sources, this study confirms that the letter is then the major form of female writing.

Yannick Ripa

Cecile Berly Three Women. Madame du Deffand, Madame Roland, Madame Vigée Le Brun Compound tense, 184 pp., 17 € (ebook: 11.99 €).

Coronavirus: what are the implications for cancer patients?

April 14, 2020 by drbyos

Grandstand. With the coronavirus, we are living much more than a health crisis. It is also a test of resistance for our health systems, even for the countries considered as “best ranked” by the various evaluation institutes or bodies. The indicators used, such as economic performance criteria, minimization of the cost of production, satisfaction of a standard of equity specific to each company, now appear to be poorly calibrated and insufficient in the face of such an epidemic crisis. As this pandemic progresses, we understand less the absence of indicators relating to the conditions of practice of those who provide care and to their dedication.

The fight against Covid-19 goes beyond a fight against the epidemic. It is also a struggle to maintain care for other chronic or acute pathologies that have not disappeared during this epidemic period. No one can also conceal the social and economic consequences, possible obstacles to access to care for all. An estimated 3.5 million French people are affected by cancer in France and 382,000 new annual cases in 2018, i.e. around 1,450 new cases diagnosed every day of the week. The Minister of Solidarity and Health regretted that cancer screenings were no longer carried out, “Calling the French” to return to their doctor for these diagnostic procedures. This announcement is important but may not be sufficient or essential to avoid the potential serious consequences of delayed or unannounced diagnoses, treatments degraded by necessity, renunciations of care or the interruption of inclusions in therapeutic trials.

A national strategy to be implemented

It would now be necessary to quickly implement a coordinated national strategy with a coherent territorial variation adapted to the local epidemiological and health situation, even when efforts are made to limit the spread of the virus by containment and barrier measures. The paradox of our society overdone with inflationary regulations and saturated with organizations of all kinds, but which ultimately finds it very difficult to organize or impose cooperation in this unprecedented context. Yet we have entered a period when things that once seemed impossible are inevitable.

Since the epidemic crisis and the post-containment period are expected to last several months, the fear of the medical community with which I associate and of the nursing staff of my establishment specialized in the fight against cancer is that we are faced with a first “wave” of more serious cases than before linked to deferred care. After this period of crisis, the duration of which no one can seriously determine, health facilities that have been under tension for many years may find it difficult, especially if they have been considered as “Covid-19 hospitals”, to be absorbed into reasonable times the care of patients awaiting treatment as well as the flow of patients with newly diagnosed cancer reintegrating a course of care. It will most certainly take months to restore optimal organization. In addition, even if the epidemic crisis ends, the deterioration of the economy could accentuate inequalities with all its consequences on access to healthcare, particularly in the case of cancer.

Towards an increase in mortality?

For breast cancer, the most frequent cancer in women, whose annual number of new cases is estimated at 54,000 in France, the surgical management of patients with favorable prognostic criteria has been postponed, in accordance with the opinion of the High Council of Public Health available from mid-March and on the recommendations of learned societies. Even if these are remarkable recommendations which are unanimous during this period, it should not be forgotten that these are expert agreements for degraded care which should not last, at the risk a loss of luck for patients with even cancer said to have a good prognosis. Other examples could be taken, such as pancreatic cancer, the incidence of which has more than doubled over the past twenty years and whose unfavorable prognosis means that any delay in diagnosis by limiting access to radiology services, that any delay in surgical management due to the absence of an available operating theater or access to post-operative resuscitation could inevitably lead to an increase in mortality.

The Lombardy region of Italy, very affected as everyone knows by the pandemic, has managed to organize itself to maintain adequate care for cancer patients during this epidemic plague. Several platforms (HUB centers) have been set up, dedicated solely to the treatment of cancer patients (including the European Institute of Oncology and the National Cancer Institute in Milan). They receive newly diagnosed surgical candidates from area hospitals more dedicated to treating Covid-19 patients. These Covid-19-free cancer hospitals can continue to care for cancer patients even if they are small cancers with good prognosis.

This attention-grabbing pandemic should not make us lose our minds. After having wagered on economic performance for years, we suddenly moved on to the almost exclusive total fight against the Covid-19. It must be remembered that there is a middle way in everything that avoids extreme attitudes while preserving the future.

Emmanuel Barranger Surgeon oncologist, director general of the Center for the fight against cancer Antoine Lacassagne, Nice (Fédération Unicancer)

Containment: but what yoga do you practice?

April 11, 2020 by drbyos

Seghir Lazri works on the theme of social vulnerability of athletes. In this column, he takes a few pictures of sport through the social sciences. How the social explains sport, and vice versa.

Confinement requires, physical exercises at home have become the only solutions to keep in shape. Among these practices, yoga, given the limited resources it requires and its significant presence on broadcasting networks, has been extremely successful. Combined with the image of healthy and fulfilling exercise, this millennial activity of Indian origin has constantly evolved and changed over time and in societies. Which leads us to question: in this age of ultra performance and social networks, what type of yoga do we practice?

Goodbye the body

To reduce yoga to just physical activity would not be very fair. Behind this term, first, there is a spiritual discipline specific to Hindu philosophy. Although difficult to date, the most primitive forms of yoga would have appeared between the III^e and the I^er millennium BC. But it was at the end of this period, under the rise of Brahmanism, that this philosophy developed by adopting a discourse. Indeed, yoga was first of all a form of renunciation of the world, “A voice of inner silence”, according to the work of the Indianist Michel Angot. The Brahmanization of yoga, in other words the association of speech with this initially silent experience, will give rise to a collection which is called Yoga-sutra. For Michel Angot, the main object of Hindu philosophy, especially through yoga, is the deliverance of the soul through the absence of suffering. It’s actually a “Suicide of the body”, in the sense that it is a question of putting bodily sensations at a distance, or even of extinguishing them in order to eliminate suffering and pain, and to “Put the mind to rest”.

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The real upheaval takes place only around the XI^e century, with the appearance of a new form of yoga, called tantric, which proposes to unite with the divine. This results in the search for perfection by the full exploitation of human capacities, both physical and mental. From then on, the yoguist becomes quite something other than this ascetic figure, he is a performing body and resistant to pain. So in the XVIII^e century, yogists were even employed as soldiers against the British army, and sometimes recruited by the latter. They passed “Men of peace to men of war”, according to Michel Angot. Far from the more original Yoga Sutra exercises, which put forward the work of sound and speech much more than that of the body. In other words, the achievement of asanas, body postures, was only secondary.

Modern yoga

Breaking with the yoga of the origins, that spread all over the world and more particularly in Western societies rests on other cultural and social heritages than those of South Asia. French journalist Marie Kock, author of the book Yoga, a world story, returns at length to this diffusion through Western societies, which really began from the end of the XIX^e at the instigation of master Swami Vivekananda. This last “First major exporter of Indian spirituality”, according to Michel Angot, participates amply in making yoga a tool of soft power for an Indian nation still under British supervision, but whose independence movement continues to grow. Regarding the practice itself, this yoga had to renounce part of its heritage to integrate other practices, such as different forms of gymnastics (Swedish in particular), and thus better correspond to the Western public.

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This is why yoga, by adapting and responding to the normative injunctions of its time, sees its practice mainly concentrated around bodily exercises, where the idea of body conservation and the quest for eternal youth have definitively replaced this original posture of renouncing the world. The imperative of health and long life which undoubtedly places “The body at the center of interests” according to the philosopher Isabelle Queval, is fully found in the new forms of yoga, which social networks promote. This is how the increasingly large dissemination of spectacular physical prowess (especially on Instagram) tends on the one hand to reduce yoga to a performative approach (to surpass oneself all the time), but also to propagate a discriminating normativity ( neither too thin nor too big). In addition, as Marie Kock points out, this predominance of a juvenile vision of the body generates new forms of precariousness in the world of yoga teaching, with many practitioners constantly seeking an ever younger and influential teacher.

In these times of confinement, the promotion of yoga exercises is in full swing. It seems important to understand that current practices are far removed from yoga of the origins and that they respond to contemporary structural and ideological determinisms. To understand this is not to denigrate the yogas of today, but above all to get rid of this exotic representation (often used for promotion) and understand that this practice, as it is inscribed in our social universe, can be a means of understanding.

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Seghir Lazri

Soleá Morente: «My music is not standard, conventional or easy. It’s research music »

April 11, 2020 by drbyos

If she plays at putting an adjective on it, chances are she’ll find several, that all fit together and are fine by her. Soleá Morente expresses with a sweet cadence a cluster of clear ideas that are based on mixing, searching, breaking clichés. Philologist, voracious reader, restless mind, confinement has caught the grenadine with an album, ‘What you lack’ (Elephant Records, 2020) recently published and at her mother’s house, sharing space and routines. The artist talks about that confinement and the wings she hopes her new job will take.

– She is back in Granada, in the family home, accompanied, away from Madrid. Is it like going back to adolescence?

– Totally. With my mother controlling everything; “Do not go out, do not enter”. I’ve been locked up here for a month and it seems like when I was preparing for my exams. I do nothing but read, write, study … There is also my grandmother Rosario and my brother. The whole gang, but I have my little space in one of the apartments my mother made and I come and go.

– The album came out on March 13, just before confinement began.

– And with a crown in the photo, too! It’s silly, but look what a coincidence.

– How is that coincidence that has you and the album locked up?

– Now I’m starting to react. I am very concerned about the situation and that kept me scared. Everything has been postponed, the promo, the concerts. I do a lot online and by phone, which is not the ideal for an album in which I have put all my enthusiasm, my savings, my strength … But it compensates me that people write me such beautiful things, that I am serving them in confinement, they have a good time, it’s a little while they dance. If my music has been of any use, there is no greater satisfaction. It serves me more than selling many records.

– Are you patient with the situation?

– At times I am patient and at times very impulsive. It goes by moments. And you develop the ability to reflect, which is something that you have to work on every day. It is important to make an effort to have perspective and think about the future, make logical decisions. Each of us is concerned about our own circumstances and having stopped a record that has cost so much and is there alone …

– In this new job you have decided to change companies and start working with Elephant Records. Why?

– I like to change, not stay all the time in the same place. I had known what it is to work with a multinational like Sony, which was very good, but I wanted to change the way of working that I had until now. Artistically and conceptually, the album has been another turn, from an interpretive point of view, of sound. In all aspects. It is seen that he had that need.

– Unlike previous records, a more natural style is perceived. Is it something premeditated?

– Yes of course. That is the idea and what we have been looking for, both David, the producer, and myself. Almost all of them are sung in one take, with very few effects. We wanted to record it live, following the character of Bambino’s work; that natural party sound of the first impulse. But some of them did have to be recorded on the clapperboard because it was very difficult to get the musicians together and we did it piece by piece, but we got rid of the super production that a studio offers.

– Las Negri, Cariño, Muchachito, Tomasito… How do you choose your companions on this trip?

– The main base is the two guitars, Eduardo Espín and Víctor Iniesta. Eduardo is the son of Carmen Linares, he comes from flamenco jondo but at the same time he works with rock bands like El Bicho, he does more open-minded things and Victor does the same thing, he plays with Manolo García but he comes from flamenco. They understand me very well. They accompany me in a granaina and go to pop without problem. We do that kind of trip. Then there are two very important collaborations, which help me to explain conceptually. Las Negris, three gypsy sisters who are cousins of my mother and who contribute that racial and passionate part and later Las Cariño, maximum representative of the indie. Between those two opposite poles I move.

– Do you feel that maintaining that balance between opposite points is your comfort zone?

– Yes, I go from one place to another naturally. I can have a blast at an indie festival and also listen to singing at a gypsy wedding. I have lived that from a very young age and the other indie influence has been very determining, from ‘Omega’ to the album I made with Evangelistas. Thus, in an unpremeditated way, I was seeing where everything fit.

– Taking two guitarists who come from flamenco jondo, have you reconciled with the purists?

– Little by little, it seems that the purist sectors of indie and flamenco are understanding me a little more, because I do have encounters with critics and the public. I get it. My music is not standard, conventional or easy. It is research music. I have the feeling that we understand each other. In Galicia, something happened to me. I adapted ‘Good things’, from La Bien Querida to a granaina. After the initial, orthodox, super flamenco falseta, people were singing with me like I was pop. That is what I intend. Naturalize what it is to sing flamenco. Nothing happens if they were not born in a non-flamenco, non-gypsy crib, to sing and enjoy it. In Spain and everywhere it is important to approach this spiritual source. Bad times are worth it.

– Have you learned to fit in those bad times?

I am developing a philosophy of life. Criticism is important when it makes sense and is done clearly and objectively. It is interesting. I respect them and some come in handy. Not everything can be good. But speaking from disrespect or cruellest things… Before they hurt, but now I know how to handle it better. Nobody likes it after doing so much effort, but the trade and the experience are already noticeable.

– ‘What you lack’ is the title of this third album. What are you missing?

– Right now freedom, just like everyone. Also, when the confinement ends, you could say that freedom in another sense. For everything we talk about; We live in a dynamic that we have established the society in which you find yourself with many prejudices, many inculcated thoughts that limit and harm you, many illogical fears, that it is important to have them when they make sense, as my psychologist says. We need to free ourselves from them and not waste time.

– Apart from his solo project he is in the group Prado Negro. What are the main differences between both projects?

– The first difference is that a “solo” album is not the same, an initiative of its own, and a teamwork in which I am one more. I tell them to sing more, but they don’t give me much account! We decided together and we chose the songs, the poems, and conceptually they are very different. We create that atmosphere conducive to the union of music and literature, treated from a more classical point of view. We sing to great poets who have left us an incredible legacy. In mine there are influences of the trap, which I relate to Andalusian popular literature of the eighteenth century.

– Literature seems to have a determining role in their day to day

– Yes. Literature occupies 75% of my life. I am very fond of reading and having studied philology has created that habit that, today, in this quarantine, is saving me. Go with my book under my arm. I may not open it, but the feeling of having it … I have three or four readings that have nothing to do with it and it gives me enough security. It offers you the possibility to escape and enter other worlds. I have more time to read and reflect. It is one of the few good things, that time that we lacked in our life before.

The presentation

“It is quite an event for Elefant Records, but at the same time a release that somehow manages to close a circle that almost no one knew was open. The magic of music. The fact is that Soleá Morente’s new album, produced by David Rodríguez, complies with the rule of third discs: reaffirmation, maturity, and development albums. And it is that for the first time Soleá herself has taken a leading role in the composition of some of the songs on the album, a work that gives off exotic and rooted aromas, but with an absolutely exceptional and wonderful pop sense. Because Soleá Morente is a unique character in the Spanish music scene. Yes, because she is the daughter of the legendary flamenco singer Enrique Morente and the dancer Aurora Carbonell, but also because the Morente median has always known how to be permeable to other musical styles and references. Thus, on this album Ana Fernández-Villaverde (La Bien Querida), David Rodríguez (La Estrella de David) and J (Los Planetas) also appear as composers. Exquisite cocktail. Square circle ».

In Gaza, “in such a populated territory, the wave can come very quickly”

April 1, 2020 by drbyos

Even under normal circumstances – if such a thing exists in the Gaza Strip – a choir of cassanders constantly predicts the worst for its inhabitants, and the future is usually responsible for proving them right. However, this is an unprecedented scenario that terrifies humanitarian workers and experts today. That of an epidemic that put the world under siege, an experience well known to the Palestinians. And spent the jokes of the first weeks in the mode “if there is a place where nothing comes in, it’s here, we are quiet,” a dull concern seized Gaza.

Even under the Israeli-Egyptian blockade for more than thirteen years, the enclave has never been waterproof. A week ago, Hamas, master of the Palestinian territory, announced the detection of two cases of coronavirus. These are two tabligh preachers who entered Gaza by the Egyptian border after returning from an Islamist conference in Pakistan, a raid that has become one of the sources of contamination for the Muslim world. Seven dou officers

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Could be better than UAZ “Pickup”

March 28, 2020 by drbyos

The beginning of the end of GAZ.

Once the Gorky Automobile Plant produced the most elite and coveted cars of the USSR, which only high-ranking officials and directors could afford, but now GAZ is not in the best position and has not produced cars for a long time. However, the Gorky plant had interesting projects, such as a pickup truck based on the GAZ-3307. A rather interesting project, which could be better than the UAZ “Pickup”, if not for one detail.

Only a 2.4-liter engine was installed under the hood, which produced 100 horsepower and was paired with a standard manual gearbox. The pickup had a frame structure and a high cab from GAZ-3307, the power unit, suspension and axle were taken from the standard Volga GAZ-31029.

The original “Frankenstein” could become massive and quite successful, but its design causes an extremely incomprehensible feeling. The cabin stands out too much and does not fit into the overall picture of this pickup and if GAZ had chosen the standard front end from the Volga, it would have looked much better and more harmonious.

In general, this is a rather interesting project, which would be popular because of its pickup body and engines, which can be easily repaired and improved. Unfortunately, only one copy of the GAZ-2307 was released, but it did not receive further development, since in 1996 the GAZ-2308 Ataman was released, which can be called a rethinking of this pickup.

In the USSR and in the post-Soviet era, there were many interesting projects not only at the Gorky Automobile Plant, but also at other automakers, but there was no money for their implementation, although many were unique and unparalleled.