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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Law</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Law</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Юридические науки</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2337</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-9001</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">43593</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2337-2025-29-1-186-204</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">RESITR</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>LAND LAW AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ЗЕМЕЛЬНОЕ ПРАВО И ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКОЕ ПРАВО</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Strengthening environmental legislation in accordance with Russia’s international obligations</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Совершенствование природоохранного законодательства в связи с выполнением международных обязательств Российской Федерации</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1488-7530</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="scopus">57210558887</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="researcherid">H-4644-2016</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kolobov</surname><given-names>Roman Y.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Колобов</surname><given-names>Роман Юрьевич</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Leading Researcher</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат юридических наук, доцент, ведущий научный сотрудник</p></bio><email>roman.kolobov@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Federal Research Center “Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry named after A.E. Favorsky of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences”</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Федеральный исследовательский центр «Иркутский институт химии им. А.Е. Фаворского Сибирского отделения Российской академии наук»</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-03-31" publication-format="electronic"><day>31</day><month>03</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>29</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>186</fpage><lpage>204</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-04-02"><day>02</day><month>04</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Roman Y.K.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Колобов Р.Ю.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Roman Y.K.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Колобов Р.Ю.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/law/article/view/43593">https://journals.rudn.ru/law/article/view/43593</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The relevance of the study is determined by the need to fulfill the obligations of the Russian Federation under the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage and the decisions of the World Heritage Committee. The purpose of the analysis is to determine the appropriate ways to improve the Russian legislation in terms of strengthening the regime of protection of the World Natural Heritage. The materials of the study are the provisions of international treaties, decisions of the World Heritage Committee, provisions of the Russian environmental legislation and draft regulations. The study applies formal-legal, comparative-legal and system-structural methods. The main results of the study include the development of the theoretical construction of sui generis specially protected area, justification of the necessity to recognize the central ecological zone of the Baikal natural territory as a specially protected natural territory. The author describes the best ways to improve the legislation on the protection of World Natural Heritage properties in terms of preparing management plans and assessing the impact on their ecological condition. The conclusion states the need to establish in the legislation the specifics of protection of other international legal regimes of nature protection (for example, Ramsar sites).</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Актуальность исследования обусловлена необходимостью выполнения обязательств Российской Федерации по Конвенции об охране всемирного культурного и природного наследия и решений Комитета всемирного наследия. Цель проведенного анализа - определение оптимальных способов совершенствования российского законодательства в части закрепления режима охраны всемирного природного наследия. Материалами исследования выступают положения международных договоров, решения Комитета всемирного наследия, положения российского природоохранного законодательства и проекты нормативных актов. В исследовании использованы формально-юридический, сравнительно-правовой и системно-структурный методы. К основным результатам исследования относится разработка теоретической конструкции особо охраняемой территории sui generis, обоснование необходимости признания центральной экологической зоны Байкальской природной территории особо охраняемой природной территорией. Описываются оптимальные пути совершенствования законодательства в вопросах охраны объектов всемирного природного наследия в части подготовки планов управления ими и оценки воздействия на их экологическое состояние. В заключении констатируется необходимость закрепления в законодательстве особенностей охраны и других международно-правовых режимов охраны природы (например, рамсарских угодий).</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>world heritage property</kwd><kwd>international protection</kwd><kwd>lake Baikal</kwd><kwd>environmental law</kwd><kwd>protected areas</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>объекты всемирного наследия</kwd><kwd>международные режимы охраны</kwd><kwd>озеро Байкал</kwd><kwd>экологическое право</kwd><kwd>особо охраняемые природные территории</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">The research was conducted as part of the state assignment of the Russian Academy of Sciences, No. 125013001144-6.</funding-statement><funding-statement xml:lang="ru">Исследование выполнено в рамках исполнения государственного задания РАН № 125013001144-6.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Albrecht, E. &amp; Gaillard, B. 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