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«Зеленые» охранители: взгляды российских консерваторов на решение экологических проблем
This article studies the attitude of modern Russian conservatives to the “green agenda”. Even though the topic of ecology was initially considered a priority for left-wing parties and movements, in recent years European right-wing politicians have become more active in discussing and using environmental issues to increase their popularity. If the typical leftist “green agenda” largely focused on global issues, for example, climate change, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, energy transition, then right populists, denying the importance of the proposed environmental policy, proposed focusing on local problems: preserving native nature, maintaining national control over natural resources. We are seeing this trend now in Russia: domestic conservatives are actively discussing the “green agenda”, offering their vision of assessments and ways to solve environmental problems. In this article we set two tasks. First, we show that Western and Russian conservative discourses have more similarities than differences. In addition, it is shown that domestic conservatives, not being a single community, have different views on the origins and ways of solving environmental problems. The domestic “green” conservative discourse is heterogeneous; it goes back to both the origins of the Russian environmental movement and the European right. Secondly, we are trying to find out whether the views of conservatives influence environmental policy in Russia. To do this, we are studying data on supported presidential grants on environmental topics for 2018-22. In total, more than four thousand applications were examined, which were analyzed on several grounds. The results of the analysis show that local projects predominate. In addition, patriotic organizations are becoming involved in environmental issues, and a number of environmental organizations are beginning to deliberately use patriotic rhetoric. The results obtained allow us to make a cautious conclusion that traces of conservative attitudes can be traced in environmental policy.