The political movement created and led by Alexei Navalny helped bring environmental issues to the forefront in Russia and could have played a key role in their future progress if the opposition politician had not died, experts and activists told The Moscow Times.
For the Russian environment, 2023 might go into the history books as the year when the Kremlin effectively dismantled those groups that had been the loudest independent voices on ecological issues and had the largest public support base.
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