Environmental security in the national security system

The security of any society depends directly on the solution of environmental problems and first of all on environmental security. It penetrates all the spheres of modern society, such as economics, industry, agriculture, service sector and so on. The environmental security issues from the perspective of the Russian Federation national security are discussed in the article. The purpose of the study is identification of directions of modern state’s environmental security ensuring in the context of sustainable development. The analysis of key legal normative documents in the aspect of succession in the sphere is carried out. The concept «environmental security» is clarified. The key directions of environmental policy in the Russian Federation are defined at the current stage. The disadvantaged environmental situation of particular regions of Russia is determined for the following reasons: annually increasing growth of hazardous industrial and municipal waste; irrational forest and land management; the release of hazardous substances to the atmosphere and water bodies; radiation and chemical pollution of some areas, negative results of arms race (destruction of chemical weapons, problems with utilization of weapons-grade plutonium, radioactive waste from time-expired submarines etc.); residual principle of environmental finance; imperfection of environmental legislation; the omission of power structures at all levels in environmental protection; other technogenic influence on the nature. These reasons indicate the necessity of detailed review of the issue. Current environmental condition in the country identifies insufficient and inefficient use of funds allocated by the state for environmental protection measures.