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By Vladimir Radyuhin
MOSCOW, SEPT. 30. The Russian Government today approved the Kyoto Protocol despite strong opposition from academics and Kremlin bureaucrats in what is seen as a political gesture designed to ease Russia's admission to the World Trade Organisation. The Cabinet's endorsement of the global warming pact gives the green light for its ratification by the State Duma, the Russian Parliament's lower House, which is heavily dominated by pro-Government parties. Moscow's support became critical for the success of the Kyoto Protocol after the United States pulled out from it in 2001. The pact will automatically take effect 90 days after the Russian Parliament ratifies it. The Russian Academy of Sciences earlier this year called for rejecting the protocol as scientifically untenable and "discriminatory" towards Russia. Russian academics came to the conclusion that it is the global warming that causes higher concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, not the other way round as supporters of the Kyoto pact said. Critics also warned that accession to the pact would derail the Russian President, Vladimir Putin's plan of doubling the size of the Russian economy by 2010. Mr. Putin's chief economic advisor, Andrei Illarionov, blasted the Kyoto Protocol as "international Aushwitz" that would strangle the Russian economy. However, Mr. Putin decided that Russia would gain more by going along with the Kyoto Protocol than by killing it. In May, he promised to speed up ratification of Kyoto after the E.U. pledged support for Russia's WTO bid.
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