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At the beginning of the 21st century, in the structure of political and environmental risks, taking into account global trends- special attention should be paid to such a specific phenomenon, such as ecological terrorism, depicting a huge variety of forms, means and methods of commitment, as well as subjects and objects. Its forms include ecocide, environmental colonialism and others.

Eco-terrorism – it is an act of violence on dangerous objects in the context of ecology. From this point of view, hazardous facilities include all types of power station plants, production of the nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear ammunitions, chemical, petrochemical and oil refining, metallurgical, biotechnical enterprises, storage facilities for their raw materials and products;

oil and gas and ammonia pipelines, as well as military facilities, containing radioactive and toxic substances, their storage facilities and waste deposits.

The main part of such facilities is located in the port-industrial zones of port cities, in large cities and densely populated areas, creating a constant threat of environmental disasters. Eco-terrorism is the intimidation of people through the impact on the ambient environment. Therefore, it is necessary to solve the issue of political and legal control over eco-terrorism.

In modern scientific and publicistic literature, the term eco-terrorism itself (ecoterrorism, ecotage = ecology + sabotage) has two different meanings and is understood as at least two, in our opinion, extremely different phenomena:

– Radical actions of “Greens” and the actions of groups and individuals, fighting for the rights of animals and coming out for the liberation of animals, as well as any “greens” (environmentalists) aimed at deliberately polluting the natural environment, with the aim of causing the enemy an ecological damage and subsequent blackmail in this direction. Apparently, it is the latter interpretation that is more consistent with the content of the concept of “Eco-terrorism”. This variety of terrorism is even more dangerous, than other terrorist crimes, since violent actions are applied to citizens or their property indirectly, through the natural environment, the existence in which will be difficult or impossible for all living things in the future. Ecological terrorism leads, as a rule, to irreversible and difficult to eliminate consequences, which are often of a global nature. Suffice it to recall, that while radioactive contamination, the ambient environment may remain improper for life for many thousands of years.