Feature story - 18 December, 2003
First television channel, December, 18, 12.00
Q: Do you consider the collapse of environmental system to be
your mistake or your merit? If a mistake, you should confess and
correct it. If a merit, you should speak of it without disguise so
that the environmental community had neither illusions nor
expectations.
(author - Elena Korshunova, the head of the state nature
biosphere reserve "Kerzhensky")
Q: Do you find forest privatization rightful?
Q: You declared the aim of doubling the gross domestic product
by 2008. According to foreign experience, any GDP growth leads to
the proportional growth of waste volumes. What steps will be
undertaken to prevent it?
Q: What are you going to undertake to modernize Russian industry
in order to introduce non-waste and resource-saving technologies
and principles of clean production?
Q: Today Russia is protracting the decision on the Kyoto
Protocol ratification. Are you going to promote the ratification in
2004?
Q: Is Russia going to impose a moratorium on introduction of
transgenous plants into environment?
Q: Will the government fund, with President's approval, the
nuclear energy industry in the same volume (up to 10 billion
roubles a year) (thanks to undertaking of a price for the storage
of nuclear waste underfunding is 1.3 billion roubles a year).
Q: Will the benefits for people who live in 30 km zone around
NPSs be restored? Does the President support the plan of the
Ministry of Nuclear Power to construct 60 new reactors?
Q: Is the government going to create favourable conditions for
introduction of projects on energy-saving and alternative energy
sources?