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Angelina Davydova – Environmental Activism and Civil Society in Russia

Angelina Davydova (Ангелина Давыдова) is a prolific environmental journalist from Russia who focuses on climate change. Davydova regularly contributes to Russian and international media, including Science, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, The Conversation, Kommersant, Takie Dela, Open Democracy, RBC, and Plus One. She has served as an observer at the UN Climate Negotiations (UNFCCC) since 2008 in addition to her work as a Senior Lecturer at St. Petersburg State University in the School of Journalism, editor for the environmental magazine Environment and Law, and board member of n-ost, a transnational media NGO. Environmental activism has been on the rise across various regions in Russia over the last few years. Many such local “green” campaigns have also proven to be successful, even in Russia's restrictive political regime, usually rather oppressive towards civil society groups. In this talk, Angelina Davydova will speak about environmental movements in Russia, the topics and causes they're working on, their forms of self-organizing, their strategies, and their results. *Note: The sound quality is suboptimal due to circumstances that required the speaker to attend from an airport.