CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE RESISTANCE TO INNOVATIONS ORIGINATING IN THE LEGAL AND POLICY SPHERE IN THE RUSSIAN OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY Bagrationi Konstantin Amiranovich, PhD in Social Psychology. <...> Place of employment: National Research University Higher School of Economics. <...> E-mail: kbagrationi@hse.ru Kutsenko Olga Viktorovna, Bachelor, Class 2 Russian Federation State Civil Service Secretary. <...> Place of study: Moscow State Law University named after O.E.Kutafin (MSLA). <...> Place of employment: Moscow State University of Humanities and Economics. <...> E-mail: info@mggeu.ru Annotation The challenge - scientific problem of this work is to identify and study the legal, socio-psychological and organizational determinants of resistance to sustainable development in the oil and gas industry. <...> The focus of attention of researchers move consideration of issues of sustainable development concept is applicable to a particular company. <...> At the same time a growing interest of the business environment to the project management, the development of project management. <...> At the intersection of these fields of knowledge, a new area - project management, sustainable development, which is currently being actively developed [Gareis, 2013; Gareis, 2009; Gareis, 2010; Gareis, 2011; Silvius, 2013; Silvius, 2013; Silvius, 2012; Taylor, 2008]. <...> However, studies on the legal aspects of the stated problems, are still few [Castro, 2012; Castro & Mouro, 2011]. <...> Model - In the article the theoretical analysis tools and socio-psychological processes associated with resistance to political and legal innovations in the oil and gas industry. <...> Relying, in particular, on the approach of the school of psychological relations, developed at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the literature on environmental psychology, as well as the legislature of the Russian Federation base and international treaties and agreements, we give an example of the resolution of disputes arising out of contracts for exports oil and gas, various service contracts with foreign contractors. <...> Conclusion - Despite the fact that there is a special project of the standard The P5 Standard for Sustainability in Project Management: People, Planet & Profit, Project Processes and Products, created GPM organization specializing in "Green Project Management", based on the objectives postulated in the main document of the General United Nations General Assembly "Transforming our world: The agenda for sustainable development for the period till 2030", signed by the countries in 2015 <...>