Institutional Environment of the Mining Waste Management of the EU Countries and Russia.

This article represents the research results of the problem of formation of institutional environment of mining waste management in the Russian Federation. This problem is so important today because it is connected to the growth of accumulation of significant volumes of mining waste in the natural resources sector of Russia. It is grounded that the growth of accumulation of mining waste was caused, on the one hand, by the deterioration of the mining works conditions and the mineral resources quality, and on the other hand, by the absence of institutional environment allowing to develop the forms of economical interaction of the waste processing. The article compares the mining waste management systems in the countries of the European Union and Russia on the base of the offered criteria characterizing the quality of the institutional environment. We made a conclusion that it is necessary to consider the mining waste management as an independent area of institutional regulation.