From Environmentalism to Ethnonationalism: Center-Periphery Relations in Pre-War and Wartime Russia

Abstract

Russia has long hosted a wide range of environmental mobilizations, both contentious and non-contentious. This piece looks at pre-war and wartime environmental mobilizations in Russia. It unveils how environmental conflicts over the last decade anticipated internal conflicts of center-periphery relations, which have only been exacerbated with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Russia’s wartime policies.