PUSH FOR RENEWABLE ENERGIES HEADS EAST
September 1st, 2011
BY MARK ROWE and MJ DESCHAMPS
IN Russia, politics is everything, and politics invariably means what the state's two figureheads - Dmitri Medvedev, the president, and Vladimir Putin, former president and prime minister - determine.
So when noises are heard coming from the Kremlin signalling a change in attitude towards green energy, the wise betting is that there is political weight behind such moves. That's not to say Russia does not come from a low starting point. Under Putin's rule, Russia rolled back several green laws and even removed caps on pollution from ...
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