The article examines environmental politics as the field of political studies, its origin, evolution, and the contemporary state. The prio-
rity's given to the question of the complicated interrelations between the efficiency of environmental politics as politics and its ecological efficiency. The attention of the study is paid to sustainable development politics, its difference from environmental politics in general, particularly focusing the protection of nature by the state. It is being performed through the wide range of political issues, within a certain institutional context, and in correspondence with globalization discourse. On the basis of dimension of postmodern politics the authors' definitions of the sustainable development, sustainable politics are worked out.

The article is devoted to the problems of disciplinary status of environmental politics as a branch of political science. It deals with the issues of development of environmental politics in Russia, and consolidation of research community. The author draws particular attention to theoretical discussions of the following topics: environmental policy in the context of both liberal and deliberative democracy, eco-socialism and movement for environmental justice, ecological citizenship, environmental problems and global civil society. In Russia however many problems of green political theory are reinterpreted by specific way. This reinterpretation reflects fundamental dilemmas of Russian social thought.

Ecologism is a political ideology in its own right, irreducible to any of the other ideologies. What distinguishes it from these other ideologies is its cleaving to ecocentrism and to limits to growth, allied with a more-or-less principled commitment to decentralisation. Describing ecologism in these terms now is not as convincing as it was twenty years ago, largely because these 'pillars' are not so obviously a part of the ideology as we now encounter it. The ideas that originally animated ecologism have gone somewhat into hiding as compromises have been made as a result of political and academic mainstreaming. The trajectory has been one of increasing political relevance accompanied by a decli-
ning reliance on the normative positions that first marked it out for attention in the field of political ideologies. In this sense we are in the midst of a wave of green theory which, rather than distancing itself from established political ideologies, is engaging with them.

Are liberal and environmental concerns incompatible? Distinguishing between classical and social liberalism, and between environmentalism (seeing nature as resources) and ecologism (seeing it as in itself valuable), this text discusses the areas of genuine conflict. Three such areas are identified: 1) liberalism, despite its preference for ethical neutrality, ignores the non-political, and has thus never developed any other notion of nature than as the other of humanity; 2) liberalism seems to be incurably anthropocentric; and 3) liberalism supports individual property rights to the disadvantage of ecologically minded ethics. Li-
beral authors have, over the past 25 years, adopted many environmentalist and even ecologist ideas: they have made room for an appreciation of nature as more than resources only, as important to others than presently existing humans only, and as worth protecting against undesirable consequencesofpropertyrights.There is no fundamental contradiction between affirming human dignity through individual emancipation, and protecting nature; the two may even reinforce one another. There remain contradictions between liberalism and ecologism as political theories: liberalism is by definition an individualist theory stressing individual rights including property rights, and it embraces moral pluralism, thus by definition rejecting the idea of a unique (ecological) road to salvation.

Today, a politics including environmental politics represents a network interactions of a variety of social actors between them and with a social-political context. Therefore, a decision is not a «point of destination», but rather a process and a result of their various interactions in space and time. That is a process of governance. In this article Russian environmental politics is represented and analyzed as a network process indispensable for ecological modernization. Its structural and functional peculiarities as well as its «normal» and «mobilization» state are considered. The author draw attention to the ongoing process of differentiation of network actors on «transnationals» and «locals», and to the key role of environmental movement's leaders and their primary eco-structure in shaping and maintenance of these networks.

The article examines the historical roots and development of the environmental movement in Russia since 1950-es. The author is consi-
dering the goals, forms and mechanisms of interaction between environmentalists and Russian authorities. The stages of the interaction are identified. The author stresses that the type of political regime is an important factor affecting activity of environmental movement and other civil society groups.

The environmental strategy of Russian corporations is considered. The analysis reveals the difference between companies' environmental policy in the populated industrial European part of Russia and their environmental strategy in Siberia, where the wild nature eco-systems are preserved. The Western-style ecological modernization policy and ma-
nagement are implementing in industrial areas rather effectively. The corporations are developing a kind of imitational environmental policy for the territories of the Russian North, Siberia and Far East. The environmental strategy of extractive enterprises, which are functioning there is mainly symbolical as well as environmental management systems implementation.

Ecological crisis became the most acute global problem of the present. But unfortunately environmental issues are still not seen as primarily important on the national and international political agenda. Mass media as independent political actor of the «information age» have an essential meaning in creating the effective environmental policy, both on national and international level. On each stage of a political cycle they play a different role. Mass media build cooperation-conflict «relationships» with traditional branches of democratic government. Civil society can affect the state policymaking using the power of the mass media as well.

The article deals with interdependence between political regime in Kaliningrad region and channels of influence the environmental non-profit organizations on the policy making process. Using rich empirical data and theoretical tools of study interest groups, author examines the interplay between NPO «Ecozaschita» and regional governmental bo-
dies throughout 2000's. The type of political regime established in the Kaliningrad region plays significant role in capacities of environmental NPO's to achieve their goals.