The Green Menace: Unraveling Russia's elite discourse on enabling and constraining factors of renewable energy policies

The article concludes that the main elite arguments for REPs are as an attempt to avert the green menace by establishing a Russia-based RE industry. This would ensure that the country catches up with global technological development and allows Russia to remain an important energy power through diversification towards RE exports. Climate change arguments are mainly used abroad in order to demonstrate Russia's efforts in meeting international obligations.