The Recognition and Justification of Russia´s Sovereignty over its Natural Resources
The global situation in the sphere of natural resources determines the legal basis of responsibility of individual states for rational use and protection of these resources. In the Russian Constitution and Russian legislation provide the powers of the Russian Federation in the sphere of sustainable development and rational use of land, subsoil, water, forests, wildlife, recognition and justification of its sovereignty. The independence of Russia in the field of nature management and environmental protection is based on international principles, Federal laws and regulations, and justified by the environmental vector of the national economy modernization, legislation, and manifested in the implementation of free citizens´ access to natural resources, participation in discussion, adoption of ecologically important decisions, in development of the independent state and public environmental expertise of economic projects, strategic assessments of environmental situations.