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The campaign to restore Russian independent environmental agency30 November, 2000 Russian officials rejected a referendum bid for a nationwide poll on the formation of an independent environment protection agency. "Out of 2,490,000 signatures collected in support of the referendum only 1,873,000 were recognised as authentic, falling short of the required minimum of two million for a referendum to be called," a spokesman for the commission said by telephone. 27 October, 2000 Two And Half Million Russians Back Environmental Protection Referendum . The initiators of an All-Russia environmental protection referendum have submitted to the election commissions of Russia's 60 composite regions the signatures of nearly 2.5 million supporters of this step. 21 September, 2000 World Bank Conditions Russian Forest Projects on Restructuring of Environment Agency, But Will it Cave in to Weak Reforms?. CEE Bankwatch Network and Pacific Environment and Resources Center Press Release. 9 September, 2000 Russian environmental organizations and the Pacific Environment and Resource Center (PERC) asked us to circulate this Emergency Action.. Please send a quick fax to World Bank president James Wolfensohn and US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers to pressure the Russian government to reinstate environmental agencies that were abolished in May. A model letter is given below. 27 August, 2000. Prime Minister Mikhail Kas'yanov Opposed to Referendum. The Prime Minister believes that at the current time, it is unnecessary to conduct an All-Russian Environmental Referendum on the issue of nuclear waste storage. 24 August, 2000. The Moscow based Advocacy group Ecojuris is challenging the abolition of the Russian State Ecology Committee. 29 June, 2000. National Environmenmental Referendum in Russia is hopefully on its way. Moscow Municipal Election Commission started the registration-process of the initiative group for the national nature protection referendum. 13 June, 2000. All-Russian Extraordinary Environmental Conference organized by Russian NGO community has taken place in Moscow. 12 June, 2000. Over 170 environmental
activists met in Moscow and formed the initiative group for organizing
the all-Russian referendum on the restoring an independent
environmental protection agency. According to the legislature, the
initiative group should be formally registered and will have two
months after that to gather 2 millions signatures by Russian citizens
to organize the all-Russian referendum. 08 June, 2000. The Council of
Federation (upper house of the Russian Parliament) asked Russian
President to restore Environmental Protection Committee and Forest
Service. 5 June, 2000. In the International
Environmental Day Biodiversity Conservation Center, Greenpeace Russia,
Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) and other Russian environmental NGOs
made joint protest action in front of the former Environmental
Protection committee building. 29-31 May, 2000. Environmental
ministers of the Nordic countries met in Malmo, Sweden expressed their
concern on abolishing Environmental Protection Committee in Russia. 25 May, 2000. The Environmental
Committee of State Duma (lower house of the Russian Parliament) turned
to Russian President to restore the Environmental Protection Committee. 21-25 May, 2000. Russian environmental NGOs wrote the open letter to Russian President. The text could be found in http://www.ecoline.ru/actions/goscomeco/relis.htm. (In Russian, sorry.) 17 May, 2000. New Russian President
Vladimir Putin abolished Russian Environmental Protection Committee
and Russian Forest Service by the
Decree no. 867.
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