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CSIS Issues Commentary Entitled 'Climate Darling or Potemkin Village? Russia's Carbon-Neutral Experiment in Sakhalin'
September 21, 2021
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (TNSPol) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary:

By Georgy Safonov

Former Visiting Fellow, Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program

In 1890, the famous Russian writer-doctor Anton Chekhov visited the penal colony of Sakhalin Island on Russia's far eastern periphery. His resulting series of essays painted a haunting picture of this "beautiful and original land, hidden from the eyes" . . .

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