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Official run-arounds

Russia lacks the technologies to clean up major oil spills

Getting officials to discuss environmental matters is tricky: Naidoo, who met with President Vladimir Putin during his last visit to Moscow in 2006, said that this time, he was given polite runarounds by all ministers contacted by Greenpeace.

Greenpeace will not give up reaching out to the Russian authorities, but its primary focus will be on the general population, Naidoo said.

“Right now, we’re on our way to get the Russian people informed about the issue, active about the issue,” he said.

He admitted the group is still working out a strategy to hook the Russian public, which is indifferent toward the environment. During the presidential elections earlier this year, only 20 percent of respondents in a nationwide survey by the Levada Center named ecology among their prime concerns. The poll covered 1,600 respondents and had a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.

But Naidoo has a better chance of reaching out to the general public than many others, given his background in civil activism, starting with his participation in anti-apartheid campaigning in his native South Africa in the 1980s.

Naidoo was coy about the group’s plans, but on Monday he held a 2 1/2-hour Q&A session in downtown Moscow with the creme de la creme of Russia’s “creative class” – young educated urbanites who formed the backbone of recent anti-Kremlin street protests.

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