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MOSCOW – A senior adviser to President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia could not ratify the Kyoto Protocol limiting emissions of greenhouse gases, dealing a mortal blow to the pact that required Russia's ratification to take effect.
"In its current form, the Kyoto Protocol places significant limitations on the economic growth of Russia," Putin's economic adviser, Andrei Illarionov, told reporters in the Kremlin. "Of course, in this current form this protocol can't be ratified."
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This got surprisingly little play in the press, and I'm sure Bush is blamed for it, but after all the flap Bush got for not embracing the Kyoto treaty I thought the final nail in the Kyoto coffin would have made a bigger splash. Good riddance.