Russia is at the forefront of the global climate change struggle. We ignore it at our peril.
Thirty years after the catastrophe at Chernobyl, the government of neighbouring Belarus still refuses to release information about real radiation levels in the surrounding area. It’s even planning to build a new nuclear power plant. 
In Bashkortostan, the hills are alive with the sound of limestone quarrying. Now local civil society is taking on one of Russia’s largest chemical consortia. 
Браконьерство серьезно понизило количество диких животных в Сибири и, кажется, руководству национальных и краевых парков до этого нет никакого дела. 
As Russian dreams of becoming a ‘great ecological power’ fade, Gazprom, it seems, has been driving climate policy all along.
Southern
Siberia is dying: farms are failing, the forests have been felled, and the people
are leaving – a
vast area has been failed by its government.- 1 of 3
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