Introduction / Sally Stoecker and Ramziya Shakirova -- Envisaging environmental crime in Russia: past and present realities / Sally Stoecker and Ramziya Shakirova -- Russia's nuclear industry and the environment / Dmitriy Samokhin and Alexander Nakhabov -- Forest auctions in Russia: how anticorruption laws facilitate the development of corrupt practices / Svetlana Tulaeva -- Combating corruption and organized crime in the forest sector, Trans-Lake Baikal territory / Yekaterina Pisareva -- Environmental crimes on the territory adjacent to the petroleum-storage facility in the town of Kama in the Kambarsk region of the Udmurt Republic / Larisa Pervushina -- The impact of metallurgical and cement industrial waste on central Russia's environment / Elena Bocharnikova -- Environmental contamination and public health in the republics of Tatarstan and Mari El, Russian Federation / Nailya Davletova.