ocr: Awareness of. Russia's environmental problems has risen sharply since the demise of communism. However, the resources, political will - and laow-how to tackle them are still lacking. While Russia now has an active "green" movement, it did not gain signiticant support at the 1993 general elections. Each region has its ownl particular problems. The north suffers from the etfects ofnuclear dumping in the Barents Sea. More than 17,000 contaminated containers were dumped there by the Russian navy, including the old nuclear reactor from the icebreaker "Lenin.' I Thousands of tons of chemical weapons ...
