Kolobov Roman Yurievich ↑, Ditsevich Yaroslava Borisovna ↑

The main aspects of the organization and development of cooperation between Russia and Mongolia in the field of conservation of transboundary ecological systems are considered, using the example of the lake Baikal ecosystem. Given the particular importance of efforts to ensure protection of waters of the Selenga river, the main tributary of lake Baikal and has a significant impact on the state, the largest freshwater lake on the planet, it analyses the state and highlighted some issues of legal regulation of issues of Russian-Mongolian cooperation in environmental protection. Through the analysis of the potential of the norms of international legal documents (both ratified by Russia and Mongolia, and not yet included in the list of recognized by these States as mandatory), proposals are formulated on priority measures to improve legal regulation in the field of organizing interaction between Russia and Mongolia on environmental issues. Attention is drawn to the currently unused in the protection of the lake. Baikal or the potential Of conventions on the protection of transboundary watercourses and international lakes that is not fully used; on the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage; on environmental impact assessment in a cross-border context and certain other international regulatory documents.

international legal protection of the environment, lake Baikal, russian-mongolian cooperation, Selenga river, environmental policy of Russia and Mongolia

Kolobov Roman Yurievich - Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of International Law and Comparative Law, Law Institute, Irkutsk State University (1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation); Associate Professor of the Departments of Civil Law, East-Siberian Branch of Russian State University of Justice (23a, Ivan Franko st., Irkutsk, 664074, Russian Federation), e-mail: roman.kolobov@gmail.com

Ditsevich Yaroslava Borisovna - Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Prosecutor’s Supervision and Ensuring the Participation of the Prosecutor in the Consideration of Civil and Arbitration Cases, Irkutsk law Institute (branch) of the University of the Prosecutor’s office of the Russian Federation (1, Shevtsova st., Irkutsk, 664035, Russian Federation), e-mail: yaroslavadi@mail.ru

Kolobov R. Yu., Ditsevich Ya. B. Osnovnye napravleniya razvitiya rossijsko-mongol'skogo sotrudnichestva v oblasti ohrany transgranichnyh ekosistem [Main Directions of Development of Russian-Mongolian Cooperation in the Field of Protection of Transboundary Ecosystems] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2020, no 4 (91), pp. 108-115. https://doi.org/10.26516/2071-8136.2020.4.108 (in Russian)

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