Big-name nonresident environmental organizations are willing to pull out of Rosprirodnadzor’s Public Council created by order of Vice Premier Igor Sechin.
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The Ecologically Pure Council
Big-name nonresident environmental organizations are willing to pull out of Rosprirodnadzor’s Public Council created by order of Vice Premier Igor Sechin. The reason is the proposal of Rosprirodnadzor aid Konstantin Tsybko to establish Russia’s first political green movement capable of pushing western NGOs out of the country’s environmental sector.
In its initial state, the Public Council of Russian environmental watchdog agency Rosprirodnadzor that unites Russia’s and foreign environmental organizations hasn’t survived for long. Big-name nonresident ecologists, including spokesmen of Greenpeace Russia and WWF, are willing to withdraw from the project launched in the middle of summer.
In the letter addressed to Rosprirodnadzor chief Vladimir Kirillov, the enviromentalists notified about their desire to pull out of the Public Council, giving its recent intitiatives as the reason. The Public Council met in early September; it was chaired by Rosprirodnadzor chief Konstantin Tsybko, who defined the tasks in political terms and expressed the desire to set up a public ecological organization, which will turn into a new All-Russia’s Green Party. The officials from Green Peace Russia and WWF responded by pointing out to their nonpolitical essence and said they were not and couldn’t be the members of any political party, the more so take part in creation of any political structure.
Tsybko doesn’t intend to abandon political ambitions. “I think a powerful national public movement of environmental nature should be created in Russia. What’s more, it should replace the existing Green Party,” Tsybko said. According to the sources, this bureaucrat acts on behalf of the Fair Russia Party and is in charge of “pre-sale preparation of the green movement.” The matter at stake is the revival of ecological rhetoric of the party, which Sergei Mironov used at the stage of the Life Party and “the desman protection.” The tricky point is that the withdrawal of nonresident NGOs will jeopardize basic idea of the Public Council establishment - the body was expected to turn into the government-controlled Green Public Chamber.
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All the Article in Russian as of Sep. 15, 2008
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