Russian Ecological Party 'The Greens'

Dr Startsev has been associated with the Greens since the mid-2000s, when he headed the Saint Petersburg regional branch of the Greens.

Chairman of the Council of the Saint Petersburg regional branch of the political party Russian Ecological Party “The Greens”. He was elected to the party's Central Council.

In July 2016 the congress of the Russian Ecological Party “The Greens” nominated him as a candidate for the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the 7th convocation (in single-mandate constituency No. 216, Saint Petersburg, and on the federal party list) on a programme of environmental modernization.

In an interview with the journal “History. Law. Politics” (No. 2, 2012), “Russia's Unique Nature, the Hope for Saving Civilization”, Dr Startsev, then a member of the Greens' Central Council, set out the main lines of an environmental and economic idea: UNIDO's Green Industry platform, presented at the Rio+20 summit, and a move from growth at any price to an economy in proportion to the resources of the biosphere.