RSFSR law "On the Protection of the Natural Environment"
signed by Yeltsin 12/19/91 published 3/3/1992 in Rossiyskaya gazeta
15 major sections, 94 separate articles
Goskompriroda (short time was Ministry in 1991-joint union-republican body)
weak CIS body - Interstate Ecological Council (made of environmental misters minus Ukraine) Council function to mediate inter-republican disputes & address environmental obligations of former USSR within Russia Goskopriroda superseded by Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources & interdepartmental Coordinating Council on Ecological
Policy (first chaired by A. V. Yablokov-portfolio of
Presidential Adviser on Ecology and Health
Council= Ministers of Ecology & Natural Resources, Public Health,
Agric, Fuel and Electric Power, Science, Higher
Education, Technical Policy and heads of state committees in Russian
Government