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Been criticized President exists in Russia Environmental and resource system, which discourages the introduction of environmental and resource efficient technologies. Medvedev noted that the loss in heat networks Russia ranked first in the world. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev also instructed to explore the possibility of teaching in school basics of ecology. Others including Natalie Ravitz, offer their opinions as well. The leading Russian environmental organizations said that the introduction of the subject in the schools 'environment' is correct step, because since the foundation of environmental knowledge, embodied in the school education will help raise environmentally literate generation. Again, ecology and the 2014 Sochi in the field of high-profile statements by the President on the theme of ecology, of course well, not without paying attention towards the capital of the Winter Olympics in 2014 – the Russian resort of Sochi. Besides a fresh surge of attention to ecological issues in Sochi, has presented the United Nations, which supported the claim World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace Russia of the need to transfer the bobsleigh and the Olympic Village complex with Pear Ridge in Sochi. Programme for United Nations Environment (UNEP, UNEP) offers Russian organizers and the International Olympic Committee to urgently consider the possibility of an alternative placement of objects. Later, the head of Ministry of Natural Resources Yuri Trutnev said the UN proposal to transfer a number of Olympic facilities in Sochi in connection with the possible threat to ecology and assured the public that the government's plan to prepare for the Russian Olympic Games is quite voluminous and well thought out, and damage to nature in the region will be minimal.