“…Unfortunately, little information on potential JI projects is available from the websites of Gazprom and other Russian companies which plan to host JI, and few professional or scholarly papers have been published on this issue in Russia, especially on projects other than from the energy sector. For example, Yulkin (2007) attempts to overview the prospective JI project for the company Ural Steel on modernisation of its electric steelmaking shop, but fails to give any detailed (2006), Evans et al (2000), Firsova and Taplin (2007), Illarionov (2007), Kasparov.Ru (2007), Korppoo (2005), Korppoo and Moe (2007), Laroui et al (2004), SOVA Center (2007), The World Bank (2006), Vasilyev (2006), andWood (2007) information with regard to it. Nevertheless, there is significant business and industry interest in Russia in JI especially from the environmental auditing perspective and Russian consulting companies offer their services on preparation of JI project documentation (Khaymin 2007 To improve the Russian situation with JI, it would be obviously helpful if the problems described above, and in particular related to institutional and legislative frameworks could be solved by the Russian Government, however, this may not be easy to do.…”