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National Environmenmental Referendum in Russia is hopefully on its way

On the June 29 Moscow Municipal Election Commission started the registration-process of the initiative group for the national nature protection referendum.

Questions of the referendum will be the following:

1. Do you agree that import of radioactive waste for storage, disposal and processing should be banned?

2. Do you agree that Russia should have an institution responsible for environmental protection separate from institutions responsible for nature use and management?

3. Do you agree that Russia should have a legally independent Forest Service?

In order for the initiative group to be registered, two million signatures should be collected during three months, which according to the Russian legislation is needed for referendum to take place.

Russian ecologists do not support the restoration the former of the State Environment Committee. It didn't work really well all the time. They suggest a new federal body to be introduced in Russia, which will be responsible for the control of nature use, providing of ecological assessments, monitoring the environment situation and for work at national nature protection areas (nature reserves, national parks and refuges).

According to greens, a new institution should have the control and protection functions of the ormer Forest Service, Fishery Service, Department for Protection and Rational Use of Hunting Resources of The Ministry of Agriculture and some others.

The referendum is initiated by the Russian branch of WWF, Greenpeace Russia, Biodiversity Conservation Center of SEU, Baikal Ecowave, Save Pechora Committee, Khabarovsk Fund for Wild Life Protection, EcoCenter "Dront" (Nizhniy Novgorod), Altai XXI, Altai NGO "Katun", Sakhalin Ecological Watch and other Russian NGOs.

Contacts: referendum_ru@hotmail.com

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