INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION IN THE ARCTIC IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CHALLENGES AND CHANGES
The ongoing global processes are reorienting Russia's international cooperation in the Arctic in the field of scientific research and economic development. The SCO and the EAEU organizations are gaining significant international influence, and the formation of cooperation between the BRICS countries continues. Russia's growing interaction with non-Arctic states creates the need to search for (or develop) fundamentally new legal foundations for international environmental cooperation in the Arctic. The developed practice of regional legal regulation of certain environmental problems in the Arctic is leveled by the illegal behavior of the Arctic states. The international agreements adopted by the SCO, the EAEU and the BRICS in the field of environmental and Arctic cooperation are studied. The reasonability of developing and adopting a universal international agreement regulating the legal regime of the Arctic, capable of violating the national interests of Russia and the Arctic states, is disputed. At the same time, the elaboration of international environmental standards for navigation, fishing, development and processing of natural resources and other activities in the Arctic is of practical interest. It is noted that despite the proclamation of the Arctic vector of development by the organizations, the international legislation of the Arctic orientation is characterized by fragmentary elaboration of individual elements in the absence of integrated approaches.