This groundbreaking Greenpeace International report details the transformations in Russia’s environmental governance, climate policy, biodiversity and socioeconomic and political landscape in the wake of Russia’s war in Ukraine – as well as the impact of these changes at domestic and global levels.
Download the report in Russian and English below.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 sent shockwaves around the world. The Putin regime that inflicted this ongoing, heinous tragedy on Ukraine and its people has also set Russia itself back decades. Today, the world’s largest country is marked by escalating authoritarianism, militarisation and systemic repression – a country where civil freedoms are nearly extinguished, independent organisations are criminalised and the ruling elite profits from war, natural resource exploitation, and attacks against neighbouring nations.
Drawing on hundreds of sources gathered from outside Russia after the post-2022 crackdown, this report is also the first to bring together scattered data into a coherent picture, revealing the desperate state of Russia. The report shows that Russia’s regime is based on a ‘troika’ consisting of extractivism, authoritarianism and war, destroying the country’s environment, biodiversity, society and international relations.
However, despite the bleak situation, repressive crackdowns, and a general atmosphere of apathy, environmental issues remain one of the few topics that continue to spark public interest and trigger protest, especially at the local level.
While this report focuses on the situation inside Russia and its international politics, it sends a broader warning to the world: regimes that rely on the extraction of natural resources, authoritarian rule and militarisation – and to those countries that finance such regimes and trade with them, paying no regard to the consequences.
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