"As such, measures like grant funding as well as reparations must have a greater bias on less industrialized countries, given the fact that those countries still need to ensure that they migrate from primary good-producing countries, to being countries that add value as well as build sustainable tertiary sectors," Mtimka continued.
The affected developing nations should "determine the initial amount to be paid, taking into account the costs necessary to restore good environmental conditions, to compensate local residents who had their health spoiled by the mining companies, and the necessary funds for the development of the affected economies," Kirill Kazakov, a member of the Russian Political Science Association Council of Youth Political Scientists, said.
"Some western countries may pay some amounts to promote the development of countries that consider themselves affected, for the sake of obtaining additional preferences for their own companies to the detriment of the interests of geopolitical opponents, as well as to activate their anti-Russian narrative on international platforms," the scholar suggested. "Consequently, the affected countries will receive their funds, and western countries will avoid creating a precedent of paying 'reparations' and 'compensations' for their economic activities."