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obligations of former USSR within Russia Goskopriroda superseded by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