Environmental legal regulation of oil and gas industry in Russia
The article is devoted to the studies of the specificities of the environmental legal regulation of the oil and gas industry in Russia. The scientific novelty of the article is due to the fact that based upon the scientific analysis of the definition of «legal regulation» the author formulates a comprehensive definition of the «environmental legal regulation of the oil and gas industry», and it is proven that the environmental legal regulation of oil and gas industry is formed within the object field of the environmental law, which is an independent branch of Russian Law, including integrated provisions for the protection of the environmental as an ecosystem, differentiated provisions on resources, which are aimed at the protection of certain natural resources, as well as ecologized provisions of other branches of law.