"25 years of attempts on virginity"

The closer the coveted on July 1, when we say our “yes” long -term stability and strengthening the foundations, the more actively the pillars of these foundations are preparing to taste natural wealth, previously, at least formally protected by law.

The innovation proposed to Article 114 states that the Russian government " takes measures aimed at maintaining the unique natural and biological diversity of the country." Hundreds of loyal commentators sang wisdom and the depth of these not very folding words, which, in fact, exactly do nothing to the modern powers of the government in the field of nature protection.

The government reluctantly engages in this, with one hand, mediocrely wasting natural resources, but nevertheless, not allowing the endless spaces of our great homeland with a continuousness.

The guarantee of this is the infinite pulling the history of the National Park of the South-Wer, who became a part of the first world of the Komi Virgin Forests, which was established in Russia, which became part of the first object of the World Heritage Heritage. If this national park could write memoirs, he would entit them "25 years of assassination of virginity", and we will briefly retell their plot here.

The presence of relatively small (by Russian standards) reserves of ore gold in the park was known even when it was created. When the park was formed in 1994, the Komi River basin was included in it, where since the Gulag was the development of mineral deposits.

The bill "United Russia", in the proposed Turchak-Vorobyov-Mairov-Bourmatical form, is a step towards the third circumcision of the reserved lands of Russia. And be dead, they think this, under the canopy of the already updated "environmental" constitution.

Already in 1997, the first attempt was made to return the area to the economic turnover: the head of the Komi Republic issues a decree on the exclusion from the territory of the national park of 200,000 hectares, where reconnaissance and mining of minerals was carried out before the creation of the park. However, this decree was canceled by the court in the suit of the prosecutor's office.

In 1998, the Russian State Ecology conducts an audit and issues to all enterprises, instructions on the suspension of gold production. Gold mining in the park ceases. State environmental examination gives the Komi government a negative conclusion based on materials substantiating the change in the borders of the national park to ensure the extraction of minerals.

However, in 2000, by decree of the new President of the Russian Federation, the state trading of Russia was liquidated, and its functions were transferred to the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia. By virtue of its structural features, the ministry is interested in the development of mineral extraction (and this is not a secret - even on the coat of arms - an oil tower).

In 2001, the Ministry of Natural Resources, at the request of the Government of the Komi, agrees to exclude plots for exploration and production of gold from the National Park of the South School of South Theater in the event of a Komi Government of the corresponding decision. The Komi government makes a similar decision in 2004. The prosecutor's office of the Komi Republic, after the appeal of Greenpeace, disputes the decision and forces the government to cancel it.

On December 30, 2009, the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use, which subsidized the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia, illegally issued Gold Mineral CJSC License No. Syk14832BE for gold mining at the Miraculous deposit located on the territory of the Yugid VA National Park.

In 2010, the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia approved a new provision on the park with the seizure of these sites.

In 2011, exploration, including drilling and explosive work began in the park, as a result of which serious harm was caused to natural complexes of the National Park.

In 2013-2015, the provisions on the park by which the "wonderful" deposit was excluded from its territory was twice canceled by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

Nevertheless, in 2015, Russia submitted to UNESCO an application for changing the boundaries of the Forest Forest of the Komi Forest Forests, to exclude 50,000 hectares from its borders, including the “wonderful” field. The application was not approved by experts of the International Union of Nature Protection (MSOP), after which Russia withdrew the application.

The Arbitration Court in 2016 at the suit of the prosecutor's office ordered Gold Minerals to release the plot it occupied and restore it. The decision to restore has not been executed to this day.

In 2019, the license was suspended "before changing the borders of the park" (according to the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources). At the same time, Russian state structures began preparing the documentation of changing the borders of the National Park. The FGBU, subordinate to the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia, VNIIECOLOGY, is working on the preparation of environmental and economic justification for changes in the boundaries of the Yugyd VA National Park.

In 2019, the Ministry of Justice of Russia officially stated in a letter dated 08.19.2019 No. 09/10390-AB, "a change in the borders of the National Park, which excluded the territories that were previously included in its composition, are not provided for by the current legislation of the Russian Federation."

Actually, this feature of the native legislation saves the territory of the reserved lands of Russia from the regular attacks of members of the Cooperative "near the lake", resource oligarchs, Olympic committees and rootless Cyprus offshores. From protected lands of protected areas, it is impossible to "legally cut off a piece."

But then the radiators of the new constitution came to the aid of the offended and deprived. On June 17, 2020, the State Duma introduced the draft Federal Law No. 974393-7 "On Amending the Federal Law" On Special Protected Natural Territories "and certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation"). Amendments to the law on protected areas were introduced to the State Duma by a group of senators and deputies from the United Russia party, including the vice-speakers of the SF Yuri Vorobyov and Andrei Turchak, the head of the Committee of the SF for Agrarian-Revolutionary Policy and Nature Management Alexei Mayorov and the chairman of the Duma Committee on Ecology Vladimir Burmatov. They believe that the protected areas "must be cut."

Today in Russia there are 63 national parks. 27 national parks have several hundred settlements. Due to the strict environmental status of national parks to citizens living within their borders, a number of prohibitions are extended, for example, the privatization of lands that deputies promise to cancel. At the same time, the right Council of People's Commissars does not know what the left Duma does, because the bill containing a similar amendment was submitted to the State Duma back in February 2020 by the head of the Committee on Natural Resources Nikolai Nikolaev and is preparing for consideration. Attempts to legitimize the seizures of planned protected areas have been walking along the Duma for a long time and "reserved amnesty" are called on local jargon.

However, in the new Sovfa project, the appetites of lawmakers accounted for and offer to resolve any changes in the borders of national parks, endowing the Government of the Russian Federation with such powers and giving this a form of legality by the conduct of "public discussions" in a form convenient for the government.

According to the law on protected areas, the entire territory of the National Park is intended to preserve the natural heritage. Property are also, by definition, are the most important mechanism for the protection of biological diversity. Thus, the seizure of lands of national parks contradicts the government’s task to preserve the unique "natural and biological diversity", determined in the proposed new version of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

The chairman of the Presidential Council under the President Valery Fadee, in addressed the chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin with a request to exclude from the bill the possibility of changing the borders of national parks, as capable of leading serious violations of all citizens to a healthy environment. The Council admits that "citizens living in national parks have certain problems in the exercise of their rights that require legislative settlement, however, this should not be decided by excluding land from the national parks."

Alexander Kolotov , Head of the Public Organization of Croeno "Plotina" from Krasnoyarsk does not expect anything good from the bill: " Potential investors of millions and billion projects for the development of specially protected natural territories are now probably rubbing their hands in anticipation. For example, the entire National Park" Krasnoyarsk Pillars "can be re -reinforced along the whim of" lovers of nature ", entered into the corridors of the authorities and the corridors of the authorities and Thirsty to get their own section of the protected nature not far from the Siberian metropolis. "

Mikhail Craindlin, the head of the program in the specially protected natural territories of the Greenpeace of Russia, also sees the great danger of the project: “ The new law allows you to change the boundaries of national parks with almost any restrictions. In fact, this means that you can cut any parts from the national park. And from the point of view of the resource and commercial there is something to cut and there is someone to cut it off. In the Samara Luka national park, they want to build a resort, they want to build a resort, In the south-wa, they are ready to dig gold, the “moose island” national park prevents the mastering of huge road-construction budgets, but behind the lands of the Sochi or Baikal national parks there are long queues of interests. ”

The Russian branch of Greenpeace calls for citizens to protect their national parks by writing appeals to the profile committees of the Council of People's Commissars and State Duma with a demand to prevent the law on the possibility of changing the boundaries of national parks.

At the relatively populated northwest, not only Yugyd-va is threatened: from the Russian North National Parks and the “Seine”, the authorities want to cut out settlements, and from the Onezhsky Pomori park-the Uns of the White Sea, where the most fat navaga is caught. They may encroach on the newly created national parks "Hibina" and "Ladoga skewers". It is enough to open the Pandora's box so that every controversial merchant has something to like there.

The concept of "specially protected natural area" first appeared in Russia in 1917, that is, more than a century ago. And throughout history there were only two mass reduction of the areas of specially protected natural territories. The first according to the personal decision of Stalin in 1951, the second - by the personal decision of Khrushchev in 1961. Both times, a huge damage was inflicted on the nature of Russia. The bill "United Russia", in the proposed Turchak-Vorobyov-Mairov-Bourmatical form, is a step towards the third circumcision of the reserved lands of Russia.

And be dead, they think this, under the canopy of the already updated "environmental" constitution.