CONFLICTING NORMATIVE DEFINITIJN OF «NATURE» AS A BASIC CONCEPT OF ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Popov V.S., PhD at Law. <...> Place of study: Chelyabinsk State Research University Annotation: Nature is undoubtedly the basic concept for ecology and environmental law. <...> Terms, it is expressed in tСe leРКl ПТeld, Кre “nКture” Кnd “nКturКl envТronment”. <...> StКndКrd deПТnТtТon oП “envТronment” Тn tСe current leРТslation of the Russian Federation (however, and the Republic of Kazakhstan) due to certain contradictions and raise questions. <...> In particular it is the identification of the unПounded “envТronment” Кnd “envТronmentКl protectТon”. <...> It will be possible to formulate a definitТon oП “envТronment”: a consistent, in a conjugate between natural science and its legal sense only on the basis of this study. <...> Природа - это, несомненно, базовое понятие для экологии и для экологического права. <...> Нормативное определение «природной среды» в действующем законодательстве Российской Федерации (как и в Республике Казахстан) сопряжено с некоторыми противоречиями и вызывают вопросы. <...>