A groundswell of popular articles and academic monographs are appearing that discuss nuclear guided missile warfare, modernizing delivery ... ... quiet, silent. You don’t see it, feel it or hear it. This view was confirmed recently by Sergey Ivanov, chief of staff for Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin, responding to questions from the international online media platform “RT.” ...
... the marginalised status of environmental issues in general; the massive role of fossil fuels in its economy; limited knowledge and often mere ignorance about the science of climate change and available climate policy options; and a firm, though unfounded, belief that climate change if anything will bring only benefits (see below). Although Russia has adopted a series of relevant policy and legislative documents such as the
Climate Doctrine
and
a recent presidential decree enforcing the emissions target for 2020
, these have remained mainly declarative in nature and led to little follow-up ...