ABSTRACT
This chapter considers two sets of such efforts and how well they had been implemented by the end of 2010: institutional, primarily in the law-making area, and organizational, mostly the development of the integrated crisis management system in Russia with a focuses on disaster policy. The radical political and socioeconomic permutations that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to crucial changes in Russian legislation, including the development and enactment of the first federal laws on civil defence, environmental protection, and emergency and disaster management areas. These constituted the legal foundation of the institutional framework of national crisis policy, primarily that in the disaster management area, including the building up of EPARIS. In addition, it involves the harmonization and unification of these Acts on the basis of the principles and rules of international law. This is used by international emergency and disaster-related organizations like the International Civil Defence Organization, United Nations Disaster Relief Organization, and United Nations Environment Programme.
