Guardian: Russias environment has it rough. For close to a century, successive leaders have attempted to bend nature to their will in the drive for economic growth.
Under Stalin, planners tried to make Siberian rivers run south rather than north, Khrushchev dreamed of growing corn in the Arctic circle and attempts were made under Brezhnev to unlock tight oil using nuclear explosives.
Yet Russians hear relatively little about the treatment and exploitation of their own land, because of a lack of media...