RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Russia has the largest forest area in the world.

These forests not only have an important role to play for people in the area and irreplaceable indigenous biodiversity, but also a major impact on the global climate system.

Forty percent of Russia's vast forest resource remains inaccessible to logging due to the mountainous landscape and the lack of infrastructure. Where these factors are not a problem for logger, areas are logged heavily and often apparently illegally. This is particularly evident around railroads and population centres and in Siberia and the Russian Far East.

Many areas that have been clear cut, and particularly those located on the fragile permafrost north of the Amur River, have become virtual deserts because of the extreme cold and thin soil layers.

Vast amounts of timber are exported from the Russian Far East and Siberia annually. While it is difficult to gather exact export numbers, a clear trend is apparent; the export of raw logs to the Asian-Pacific countries has increased, while the export of sawn wood and wood chips has decreased.

DOCUMENTS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
16/04/2013	Illegal logging in the Russian Far East: global demand and taiga destruction Illegal logging of valuable temperate hardwoods has reached crisis proportions in the Russian Far East. ...	WWF-Russia
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25/09/2012	The Russian Forest Sector Outlook Study to 2030 This report argues that the forest sector in the Russian Federation needs to be modernised using innovations ...	FAO
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25/10/2011	ENPI FLEG Regional Bulletin, October 2011 Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG) is an international, participatory process of formulation ...	ENPI FLEG
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01/06/2011	ENPI FLEG Regional Bulletin No. 4 Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG) is an international, participatory process of formulation ...	ENPI FLEG
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17/05/2011	ForestWatch Issue 160 and FLEGT Update In this issue: * NGOs re-frame the sustainable biomass debate * Road to ruin: Russian project destroying ...	FERN
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01/11/2009	Analysis of trade in illegally harvested timber: Accounting for trade via third party countries The paper presents a model to analyse trade in illegally harvested timber with a particular focus on ...	Forest Policy and Economics (Matthias Dieter)
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01/07/2008	Illegal wood for the European market: An analysis of the EU import and export of illegal wood and related products This report looks at EU timber imports and concludes that one-fifth of wood imported into the European ...	WWF
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01/03/2008	China's Imports of Russian Timber Since the end of the 1990s, the Sino-Russian border regions have witnessed a dramatic, unprecedented ...	Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (Forest Conservation, Livelihoods and Rights Project, Occasional Paper No. 2)
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01/01/2008	Forest governance in countries with federal systems of government: lessons and implications for decentralization Decentralization has been a popular theme in the forest sector. Much of this work and these discussions ...	CIFOR (Arnoldo Contreras-Hermosilla, Hans M Gregersen, and Andy White)
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01/01/2008	Forest Destruction's Prime Subject Briefing document from the Yale School of Forestry which considers China's voracious appetite for ...	Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (Steve Kemper)
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12/12/2007	Attention Wal-mart shoppers: How Wal-mart's shopping practices encourage illegal logging and threaten endangered species EIA report arguing that Wal-Mart has a 'no questions asked' sourcing policy, which is having ...	EIA
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01/05/2007	Verifying the legal origin of Russian timber: A checklist for companies trading in Russian timber This checklist for verifying the legality of Russian timber has been developed within the framework of ...	WWF Russia and WWF Denmark
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19/09/2006	Partners in Crime: A Greenpeace investigation into Finland's illegal timber trade with Russia Report looking at evidence of illegally logged timber from Russia being freely imported into Finland ...	Greenpeace
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01/08/2006	Logging in the Wild East: China and the Forest Crisis in the Russian Far East Originally appearing in an abridged and modified format in the New Scientist under the title, 'Fell ...	Forest Trends (Charlie Pye-Smith)
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01/08/2006	Strengthening Forest Law Enforcement and Governance: Addressing a systemic constraint to sustainable development This report arises from the need to take stock of both the Bank's efforts in the arena of forest ...	World Bank
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30/03/2006	Russia: Concept of National Action Plan for Preventing Illegal Logging and Associated Trade Outlines the most up-to-date concept of an ENA FLEG Action Plan. Presentation by Mr. Valery Roshchupkin, ...	Federal Forestry Agency of the Russian Federation
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22/11/2005	Failing the Forests: Europe's Illegal Timber Trade Based on trade data for six key timber-producing regions – the Amazon Basin, the Baltic States, ...	WWF
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21/11/2005	Global Witness ENA FLEG Ministerial Declaration Comments Comments on the fourth draft Europe and North Asia FLEG Ministerial Declaration. ...	Jon Buckrell
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01/10/2005	Impacts of reduction of illegal logging in European Russia on the EU and European Russia forest sector and trade A report examining the potential impacts of implementing trade controls, such as the licensing scheme ...	European Forest Institute
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10/09/2005	ENA FLEG Ministerial Process: Draft #3 of the 'Building Blocks' towards the St Petersburg Declaration This document is based on the output of the ENA FLEG Preparatory Conference held in Moscow, June 3-5, ...	ENA FLEG Secretariat
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01/09/2005	FLEG Newsletter No.1 FLEG News is a periodic newsletter designed to provide updates and share information related to regional ...	World Bank FLEG Secretariat
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01/07/2005	Europe and North Asia FLEG: the next steps for civil society This Briefing Paper follows on from the joint publication by FERN and Taiga Rescue Network (TRN) of ENA-FLEG: ...	FERN and the Taiga Rescue Network
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11/06/2005	Summary of the ENA FLEG Preparatory Conference June 2005 Briefly introduces the history of regional FLEG processes and then summarises the ENA FLEG Preparatory ...	International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
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22/02/2005	ENA FLEG International Steering Committee Meeting Notes February 2005 Summarises the discussions held, the structure of the process so far and plans for the development of ...	ENA FLEG Secretariat
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01/12/2004	Europe and North Asia FLEG: a key task for civil society The Russian government has committed to holding the first Ministerial Conference on Europe and North ...	FERN and Taiga Rescue Network
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01/12/2004	The China forest products trade: overview of Asia-Pacific supplying countries, impacts and implications This paper - which formed part of the International Forestry Review's Special Issue in December ...	Forest Trends
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01/04/2004	European Commission FLEGT Briefing Sheets (Russian 2004 version) A series of EC briefing sheets translated into Russian. The briefings describe the main aspects of the ...	European Commission
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01/01/2004	Illegal Forestry and Estonian Timber Exports An introduction to illegal forestry in Estonia and the author organisations' recommendations for ...	Estonian Green Movement and Taiga Rescue Network
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30/10/2003	The features of illegal trade and logging in the Baltic Sea region During the last years an increased focus has been put on the illegal logging as a major constraint towards ...	WWF Latvia
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01/09/2003	Organised Environmental Crime in a few Candidate Countries Investigates environmental crime, including illegal logging in each of the five accession states: Czech ...	European Commission
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01/05/2003	Feasibility of and Best Options for Systems for the Identification, Verification, Licensing/Certification and Tracking of Legality of Timber and Related Products for Imports into the EU This study, carried out as part of the EC FLEGT process, examines relevant experience related to log ...	Environmental Resources Management Ltd
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01/02/2003	The Impact of Large Scale Forest Industry Investments on WB/WWF Alliance Targets Report by the World Bank/WWF Alliance based on Latvian case study. Includes detailed recommendations ...	World Bank and WWF
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01/01/2003	Illegal logging in Northwestern Russia and Export of Russian Forest Products to Sweden Survey of illegal logging in Northwestern Russia, the origin of about 75% of Russian timber exports to ...	WWF
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01/04/2002	Chains of Destruction leading from the world's remaining ancient forests to the Japanese market This report reveals the many 'chains of destruction' in which Japan is involved, leading from ...	Greenpeace
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01/02/2002	Illegal Logging in the Southern Part of the Russian Far East An assessment of the scale of the problem, problem analysis and proposed solutions. ...	WWF
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01/10/2001	Wild East: The Timber Trade between Siberia-Russian Far East and China This links to the chapter in the above document that relates to illegal logging ...	Bureau for Outreach Campaigns, Friends of the Siberian Forest and Forests Monitor
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01/07/2000	Plundering Russia's Far Eastern Taiga: Illegal Logging, Corruption and Trade An investigation into the extent of illegal logging and trade in the region, along with recommendations ...	Friends of the Earth and Pacific Environment
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01/07/2000	Survey of Illegal Forest Felling Activities in Russia A comprehensive survey of the types of illegal logging that occurs in Russia, both licensed and unli ...	Forests.ru (Alexey Morozov)
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01/01/2000	Illegal Forest Felling Activites in Russia The purpose of this survey is to sum up the data on illegal forest felling operations violating forestry legislation ...	Greenpeace
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
16/04/2013	Russian forests and tigers left floored by illegal logging The forests of the Russian Far East are being pushed to the brink of destruction due to pervasive, large-scale ...	WWF
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25/02/2013	Russia’s Primorye Runs Out of Commercial Forest – WWF The innocent act of buying furniture in America may make you an unwitting accomplice to Russia’s ...	Ria Novosti
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25/01/2013	Illegal loggers in Far East cost Russia $17 mln Illegal logging in Russia’s Far Eastern Khabarovsk Territory has cost the state over 500 million ...	Russia & India Report
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05/12/2012	Chinese timber hunger drives illegal logging in Russia's Far East Petrovsk-Zabaikalsk, Zabaikalsky Region — About nine o'clock in the evening on Feb. 12 seven ...	The Moscow Times, Russia
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20/09/2012	Forest Fire Response Project: World Bank continues its support to sustainable forestry management and effective protection of the environment in Russia Washington - The World Bank’s Board of Directors today approved a US$ 40 million loan to co-finance ...	The World Bank
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23/07/2012	New forestry policy aims to curb fires, illegal cutting In 2010, when devastating wildfires broke out in western Russia and saw Moscow covered in a sea of suffocating ...	The Moscow News, Russia
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29/05/2012	IKEA under fire for ancient tree logging ...	The Guardian, UK
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05/01/2012	Timber barons wreak devastation in Russia’s Far East Russia’s coastal region on the border with China, some 8,000 kilometres from Moscow, is the meeting ...	RT, Russia
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19/12/2011	Is the Russian Forest Code a warning for Brazil? Brazil, which last week moved to reform its Forest Code, may find lessons in Russia's revision of ...	Mongabay.com
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05/12/2011	Wild tigers may vanish in 20 years Beijing - The last remaining Siberian tigers living wild in Northeast China could disappear within decades, ...	China Daily
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08/06/2011	WWF Russia protests Far East deforestation plans The World Wildlife Fund in Russia is taking a stand against plans by a private firm in Russia's ...	RiaNovosti, Russia
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06/04/2011	FSC certified forest area in Russia reaches 30 million hectares The FSC certified forest area in Russia crossed the 30 million hectares milestone in March, up from 20 ...	Just Means
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29/03/2011	Timber tracking a priority for Russian forestry Establishing effective timber tracking systems should be a key priority of the Russian forest sector, ...	ENPI Info Centre
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15/12/2010	Russia rules disputed road go ahead, despite protests Russia has decided to restart work on a disputed motorway cutting through one of the last forests in ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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16/11/2010	Russian forestry legislation inadequate, project roundtable hears Current Russian legislation cannot adequately ensure effective sustainable forest use, protection and ...	ENPI Info Centre
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21/10/2010	Amur tiger habitat threatened by Russia timber auctions Vladivostok, Russia – Ahead of next month's global Tiger Summit in St. Petersburg, the forestry ...	WWF
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29/09/2010	Timber industry lauded by Putin Ten timber industry projects with the total investments of 25 billion rubles will be fulfilled this year, ...	BSR Russia
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26/08/2010	Fires cost Russia '300 billion dollars' in deforestation Moscow - Wildfires have cost Russia 300 billion dollars in forest loss, environmentalists said on Thursday, ...	AFP
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23/08/2010	Russia: forests up in flames While Russian officials have blamed the unprecedented wildfires on the hottest and driest summer in 1000 ...	The Hindu, India
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02/08/2010	Khimki suspects held as logging resumes Moscow region police said Friday that they have detained two anti-fascist activists involved in an attack ...	The Moscow Times, Russia
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29/07/2010	Russia tiger habitat gets a boost with protection of key tree species Moscow, World Tiger Day — the Russian government has introduced measures to protect the Korean ...	WWF
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29/07/2010	Administration building outside Moscow trashed in protest over deforestation - paper A group of masked men have trashed an administration building in Khimki outside Moscow in protest over ...	RIANovosti, Russia
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24/05/2010	World Bank to assess FLEG programme fulfillment in Belarus Minsk - The fulfillment of the FLEG programme of the European neighborhood policy in the forestry companies ...	The National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus
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29/04/2010	Land planning with a chainsaw St. Petersburg - At first glance, a forestry-management measure passed by St. Petersburg lawmakers in ...	Transitions Online
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21/04/2010	East-Siberian Railways to step up fight against illegal logging East Siberian Railways is to increase control on the shipment of timber to China by bringing in extra ...	RIA Novosti, Russia
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09/04/2010	Europe acts to ensure its imported timber is legal Temerloh, Malaysia — Huge meranti tree trunks, many of them destined for faraway shores, are piled ...	The New York Times
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12/02/2010	Man jailed for 4 years for illegal logging in Russia's Far East A Russian court has sentenced a man who illegally cut rare species of trees to nearly four years behind ...	Ria Novosti, Russia
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30/12/2009	East Russian hardwood gone in ten years, warns BBC The trade in illegal timber from eastern Russia to China could destroy the region’s hardwood forests ...	TTJ (The Timber Industry Magazine), UK
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07/12/2009	USAID signs agreement with U.S. Forest Service and Russian Federal Forest Agency to protect world's largest forests Washington - Under the framework of the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, the U.S. Agency ...	PR Newswire
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27/11/2009	Battling Siberia's devastating illegal logging trade Wagons brimming with logs accumulate in the Siberian railway station of Dalnerechensk, more than 8,000km ...	BBC News
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30/10/2009	The West fuels illegal Myanmar timber trade Bangkok - The United States may have imported $3.8 billion of illegal timber products from China last ...	The China Post
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18/09/2009	Duma approves bill aimed at preventing illegal timber exports Moscow - The State Duma lower house of the Russian parliament on Friday approved a bill which enables ...	ITAR-TASS
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10/08/2009	Medvedev to discuss illegal timber exports with Finland, China Moscow - President Dmitry Medvedev said Monday he would discuss illegal timber exports from Russia at ...	Prime Tass, Russia
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30/07/2009	New timber rules paralyze industry Kineshma, Ivanovo Region - In better years, Olga Vladimova's midsize timber company employed 120 ...	The Moscow Times, Russia
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24/04/2009	Amur tigers threatened by economic crisis Primorye, Russia - Loggers in Russias Far East increasingly are cutting down Korean cedar pine, raising ...	WWF
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09/04/2009	Shrinking forests: the many costs In early December 2004, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered the military and police ...	Prism Webcast News
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09/03/2009	PEFC endorses Russian forest certification system Moscow, Russia - PEFC International announced the endorsement of the Russian National Forest Certification ...	Lesprom (Russia)
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25/02/2009	Outrage as protected forests go under the hammer in Russia Vladivostok, Russia - Protected forest in Russia including a maternity hospital for the Amur tiger and ...	WWF International (Indonesia)
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23/12/2008	Logging Called Threat to Krasnodar Reserve Krasnodar regional authorities are turning a blind eye to a massive, illegal logging project in a nature ...	Moscow Times (Russia)
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06/10/2008	The Stolen Forests: Inside the covert war on illegal logging The town of Suifenhe, a former Russian imperial outpost on the Trans-Siberian Railway, has belonged to ...	The New Yorker (USA)
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02/10/2008	Russia might impose ban on timber exports Speaker in Russias State Duma, Boris Gryzlov, this week said parliament was ready to elaborate and adopt ...	Barents Observer (Russia)
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24/07/2008	Russia canceled trade talks with Finland Russian Industry and Trade Minister Viktor Khristenko has canceled a planned meeting with Finnish officials ...	Barents Observer (Russia)
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24/07/2008	Khristenko to Skip Finnish Wood Talks Industry and Trade Minister Viktor Khristenko has canceled a planned meeting with Finnish officials this ...	The Moscow Times (Russia)
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22/07/2008	WWF: Finland EU's Biggest Importer of Illegal Timber The WWF accuses Finland of being one of the European Union's biggest importers of illegally felled ...	YLE News (Finland)
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11/04/2008	Siberia's black market logging The vast forests of Eastern Siberia, known as the Taiga, are a goldmine for Chinese wood traders, who ...	BBC (UK)
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10/04/2008	Russia Plans Timber Tracking to Control Illegal Logging Moscow, Russia - By 2011 there will be a unified information system in operation in Russia for controlling ...	Environment News Service (USA)
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04/04/2008	Russia: Unified information system for controlling timber circulation By 2011 there will be a unified information system in operation in Russia for the controlling of timber ...	Fordaq (Belgium)
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13/03/2008	Timber Export Points Reduced by 80% Russia - The Federal Customs Service yesterday reduced the number of customs checkpoints that will process ...	Kommersant (Russia)
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13/03/2008	Head of Karelia spoke at the Council on Timber Processing Complex Development at the Government of Russia The Prime Minister of Russia Victor Zubkov has held the third session of the Council on Timber Processing ...	News of the Republic of Karelia (Russia)
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08/02/2008	Natural Resources Ministry to Blunt Axes Russias Natural Resources Ministry has elaborated amendments to the Forestry Code aimed at opposing illegal ...	Kommersant (Russia)
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29/01/2008	Wal-Mart Buying Illegal Russian Wood to Make Products for US Market Report Alleges USA - The environmental watchdog group the Environmental Investigation Agency released a report earlier ...	Sustainable is Good (USA)
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10/01/2008	National park suffers timber cuttings Russia - One of Primorye's two national parks 'Udegeiskaya Legenda' located in the Krasnoarmeisky ...	The Vladivostok News (Russia)
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21/12/2007	Leopard population threatened by illegal logging Russia - A recent inspection of a state nature reserve in southern Primorye, the habitat of the Far Eastern ...	Vladivostok News (Russia)
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17/12/2007	Illegal Logging in Primorsky province could not be stopped without emergency measures Russia - Deputies of the regional Legislative Assembly suggest introducing special regime in seven districts, ...	WWF (Russia)
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14/12/2007	Group: Wal-Mart Blind to Illegal Logging USA - The Environmental Investigation Agency, a nonprofit group based in Washington D.C., said Wednesday ...	Motley Fool (USA)
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08/12/2007	Banker found dead in his swimming pool near Moscow Moscow, Russia - A top manager of state-controlled VTB, Russia's second-largest bank, was found ...	Kansas City Star (USA)
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22/05/2007	Environmental regulator's representative in Chita Region fired Moscow, Russia - The head of the Chita Region's department of Russia's environmental watchdog ...	RIA Novosti (Russia)
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19/05/2007	Russia - Illegal timber supply from Chita Region comparable to official export Chita, Russia - The Chita Region may be left without wood reserves in the economically accessible zone ...	ITAR-TASS (Russia)
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16/05/2007	Timber cutting destroys taiga Timber carrying trucks are a common sight in Krasnoarmeisky County, northern Primorye. Loaded trucks ...	Vladivostok News (Russia)
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13/05/2007	FSC in Russia: 'sustainable forest management' or simply money and politics? FSC-Watch was been sent the following article by Svetlana Alekseeva, Chief Editor of "Forest Certification". ...	FSC Watch
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04/05/2007	Malaysia Seeks Clarification On EU Market Access Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Malaysia will seek clarification from Romania and Poland on major issues affecting ...	Bernama (Malaysia)
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24/04/2007	Draft law on forest use in Moscow region drafted Moscow, Russia - Residents of the Moscow region will be allowed to once in 50 years to hew down trees ...	ITAR-TASS (Russia)
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05/04/2007	1 mln cu m of timber produced in Russia illegally last year Moscow, Russia - Aerospace monitoring has shown that the aggregate volume of illegally produced timber ...	Itar-Tass (Russia)
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19/02/2007	Russia's sustainable forestry revolution Russia has the world's largest remaining tracts of old growth forests. But continuous logging ' ...	WWF International (Switzerland)
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10/01/2007	How U.S. policies harm overseas forests Concerned about impending reductions in wood imports from Canada, U.S. homebuilders are looking around ...	Washington Times (USA)
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05/12/2006	Russia holds talks on GLONASS with US, Europe, India, others Moscow, Russia - Russia conducts negotiations on the use of its GLONASS satellite navigation system with ...	ITAR-TASS (Russia)
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21/11/2006	Russia's loggers cut 100 mln cubic meters of timber St Petersburg, Russia - Russia's loggers cut over 100 million cubic meters of timber a year, the ...	ITAR-TASS (Russia)
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10/10/2006	Russian minister: Wood buyers share responsibility for illegal felling Russia's Minister of Natural Resources, Juri Trutnev says that responsibility for illegal felling ...	Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
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27/09/2006	Finland receives Golden Chainsaw award (Greenpeace Press Release) In the decades between the 1950s and 1970s birch trees in Finland were considered ...	Greenpeace
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21/09/2006	Stora Enso initiates dialogue in Russia - only legal wood (Stora Enso Oyj Press Release) Stora Enso actively works to combat illegal logging wherever the Group ...	Comtex News Network
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19/09/2006	Finnish companies accused over timber imports Finnish companies are importing illegal timber from neighbouring Russia even as their government lectures ...	MSNBC (USA)
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19/09/2006	EU under fire over illegal logging Environmentalists have accused the Finnish EU presidency of importing illegal Russian timber. ...	EUPolitix.com (Belgium)
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19/09/2006	Greenpeace investigation exposes Finland's illegal timber trade with Russia (Press Release) London, UK - A Greenpeace International report released today reveals how illegally logged ...	Greenpeace (UK)
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13/09/2006	SGS 'Validation of Legal Timber Programme' (VLTP) development in the Russian Far East On 11.09.06, based on the results of the audit, that was conducted in the frames of Validation of Legal ...	SGS (Russia)
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21/08/2006	Russia in Figures According to the Russian Federal Forest Agency (Rosleskhoz), illegal logging in seven regions within ...	Kommersant (Russia)
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18/08/2006	USA to help Krasnoyarsk Territory in struggle against illegal timber export Americans are ready to help Krasnoyarsk Territory in struggle against illegal timber export. ...	Siberian News Online (Russia)
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15/08/2006	China denies plan to rent Russian forests Beijing, China: A State Forestry Administration (SFA) spokesman on Tuesday [15 August] denied a media ...	BBC Worldwide
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12/08/2006	Some assembly required To China, these forests represent a lucrative expanse of flat-packs and building materials, but at what ...	New Scientist (UK)
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03/08/2006	Satellites Spying on Loggers Russia - Forestry officials have gone high-tech in an effort to stop illegal logging, deploying satellites ...	The Moscow Times (Russia)
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27/07/2006	Environmental Challenges: Saving forests - Russia battles illicit logging At the edge of a sawmill site in Dalnerechensk in Russia's Primorsky region, 1,100 cubic meters ...	The Daily Yomiuri (Japan)
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26/07/2006	Environmental Challenges - Saving forests: Illegal felling logged from air This is the second installment of the third part of The Yomiuri Shimbun's "Environmental Challenges" ...	The Daily Yomiuri (Japan)
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14/07/2006	FFIF and WWF agree to cooperate on legal wood The Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF), WWF Russia and WWF Finland have agreed to cooperate ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report
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12/07/2006	Status of SGS implementation in the Russian Far East Review of SGS design and implementation of the Validation of Legal Timber Programme (VLTP). ...	SGS
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04/07/2006	Russian, Chinese interior ministries discuss fight against transnational crime Officials at a meeting of the working group for countering trans-border crime established by the Russian ...	Interfax News Agency
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22/06/2006	Chechnya habitat 'ravaged by war' Environmental agencies have warned that the Russian republic of Chechnya, devastated by war over the ...	BBC (UK)
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09/06/2006	Governor vows clampdown on illegal logging in Russian Far East Alexander Tishanin, the governor of the Siberian province of Irkutsk, has pledged to curtail the trade ...	Global Insight
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08/06/2006	Russian governor vows crackdown on log smuggling to China Russia - The governor of the Siberian province of Irkutsk vowed to crack down on the smuggling of Russian ...	Agence France Presse (France)
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08/05/2006	Chinese newspaper reports on the trade of illegally sourced wood products into China On May 8, 2006 the International Herald Leader, directly under China's state Xinhua News Agency, ...	Xinhua News Agency (China)
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20/04/2006	Conflict timber and forest mining The responsible practices of our industry are being obscured, big time, by the massive scale of illegal ...	PaperAge (USA)
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07/04/2006	Putin timber tour detailed by Russian TV In its late-night news on 6 April, Russia's two main state TV stations, Channel One TV and Russia ...	BBC Russia
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06/04/2006	President Putin speaks about illegal logging SYKTYVKAR, KOMI REPUBLIC. Vladimir Putin held a meeting to discuss development issues in forestry and ...	President of Russia Official Site
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01/03/2006	WWF and IKEA Drive Responsible Forest Management, Curb Illegal Logging and Reward Legal Forestry in China and Russia Since 2002, WWF and IKEA have been working jointly to promote responsible forestry in priority regions ...	FLEG News #3
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28/02/2006	China able to handle its timber demand It's false to say that China fells trees in other countries while protecting its own, said Cao Qingyao, ...	People's Daily Online (China)
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27/02/2006	China able to be self-reliant in timber consumption: SFA BEIJING -- China will be able to stand on its own feet to meet domestic demand for timber, the State ...	Xinhua (China)
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21/02/2006	UPM Publishes Innovative Web site on Tracing Russian Wood UPM has published an innovative internet site focusing on how the company carries out its wood sourcing ...	UPM
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02/02/2006	UPM's Russian wood suppliers operating at a good level In 2005 UPM carried out 112 supplier audits covering 235 different logging sites. These suppliers accounted ...	UPM
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13/01/2006	UPM wins environmental awards UPM has received two awards in a Finnish national environmental competition for its chain of custody ...
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26/11/2005	ENA FLEG summary and highlights - 25 November 2005 Over 250 ministers, representatives of government, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations ...	IISD
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25/11/2005	Governments Commit To Action on Forest Law Enforcement And Governance In Europe and North Asia St Petersburg, Russia - PRESS RELEASE - The St. Petersburg Declaration is the result of a Ministerial ...	World Bank
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25/11/2005	Illegal logging costs $1.5 billion Russia's Forestry Industry is perceived as one of the most corrupt in the world according to an ...	St Petersburg Times (Russia)
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24/11/2005	ENA FLEG highlights - 24 November 2005 ...	IISD (USA)
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23/11/2005	ENA FLEG highlights - 23 November 2005 Delegates convened in a thematic and learning session to hear presentations on improving the investment ...	IISD (USA)
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22/11/2005	ENA FLEG Meeting Opens in St. Petersburg: Highlights - 22 November 2005 The ENA FLEG Ministerial Conference opened today in St Petersburg. ...	IISD (USA)
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17/11/2005	Nigeria has worst deforestation rate, FAO revises figures Nigeria has the world's highest deforestation rate of primary forests according to revised deforestation ...	Mongabay.com
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16/11/2005	Eagle Eye: Trading deforestation China faces a deficit of 75 million cubic metres (m3) of wood to meet domestic needs and export industry ...	Central Chronicle (India)
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21/09/2005	The good times roll for China's log importers as the economy surges When Sun Laijun set up a log-importing company in a smallish Chinese town bording Russian in 1998, it ...	Financial Times (UK)
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22/08/2005	Russia's Far East timber industry has to cater to foreign markets VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - The Far Eastern timber industry has had to cater to the Asia Pacific markets in ...	RIA Novosti (Russia)
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16/08/2005	Russia concerned over illegal felling in Far East MOSCOW - Russia sustained 724.2 million rubles (about $25 million) in damages from illegal tree felling ...	RIA Novosti (Russia)
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12/08/2005	Russia and China to begin forest management talks MOSCOW, Russia - For the first time, Russia and China will hold negotiations on forest management cooperation ...	Novosti (Russia)
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05/07/2005	Illegal logging doubles in Russia, home to fifth of world's forests Illegal logging has doubled in Russia since 1992 with Moscow going on the offensive and implementing ...	Agence France Presse
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22/06/2005	Senators increase punishment for illegal logging Russia - The Federation Council on Wednesday endorsed amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences ...	ITAR-TASS (Russia)
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20/06/2005	Illegal logging thrives in Russia's Far East - Putin's envoy Khabarovsk: Law-enforcement agencies in Russia's Far East have demonstrated their inability "to ...	ITAR-TASS (Russia)
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16/06/2005	Transneft Accused of Illegal Logging Russia - The government body overseeing the use of natural resources said Wednesday it was demanding ...	Moscow Times (Russia)
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10/06/2005	Russia to tackle growing threat to its forests Moscow - Illegal logging has doubled since 1992 in Russia, which contains a quarter of the world's ...	French Press Agency
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19/05/2005	EUFOR: Support for Preventing Illegal Logging BANJA LUKA – Spokesperson for the EUFOR Multinational Operational Group Northwest Robbie Baillie ...	FENA (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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10/05/2005	Press Release: The Extent of Illegal Cutting Specified - Estonia Data has been released by the Estonian Ministry of the Environment from a satellite survey of illegal ...	Ministry of the Environment (Estonia)
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09/05/2005	Crackdown on Bosnian timber gangs In the remote mountains and forests of Bosnia, the illegal traders are busy at work. Stripping down the ...	BBC (UK)
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04/04/2005	Russian Forests Threatened By Chinese Poachers Experts forecast that China's demand for Russian timber will increase by a third within the next ...	RIA Novosti (Russia)
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28/03/2005	Industry plunders forests China's voracious appetite for wood is stripping Siberian forests, say experts. ...	The Standard (China)
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04/02/2005	Damage from illegal logging estimated at RUR5bln Moscow, Russia - At a meeting of the State Duma Natural Resources Commitee, Vladimir Kruptchak, head ...	SKRIN
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01/02/2005	Russia resorts to satellites to tackle illegal logging The president today held a meeting with the natural resources minister. One topic discussed was the fight ...	Channel 1 TV (Russia)
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26/08/2004	Finnish forestry production at risk - Russia Finnish forestry firms could close down a significant part of domestic production unless the government ...	Reuters
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11/08/2004	Legitimate Indonesian foresters contribute to illegal logging: study Legitimate forestry companies are contributing to illegal logging and other deforestation in Indonesia, ...	Terra Daily
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02/08/2004	Into the woods ...	The Independent
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06/07/2004	Oligarchs to Rule Regions as Forests Open for Privatization Russia is bracing itself for the privatization of its forests. The decisive step of this process will ...	The St Petersburg Times
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23/06/2004	Russia, China join efforts to preserve forest Russian and Chinese scientists have agreed to join forces in a programme to establish the "Amur ...	Vietnm News Agency
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10/05/2004	New investigations reveal devastating illegal logging in Russian Far East Bands of illegal loggers are smuggling millions of dollars' worth of timber out of the Russian Far ...	Forests Monitor
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02/05/2004	Siberian forests falling to illegal logging Russia - Illegal logging and controversial business plans have ecologists raising the alarm in Siberia's ...	Independent Online (IOL)
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23/03/2004	European Forestry Institute to study the impacts of reduction of illegal logging in European Russia on the EU and European Russia forest sector and trade The UK Department for International Development (DfID) and the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs have ...
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02/02/2004	Russians propose controversial new forest law Russia presented a new draft law on Monday aiming to give private investors easier access to its vast ...
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30/01/2004	Anti-illegal logging project in Latvia wins World Bank prize Danish NGO NEPCon was one of the winners of the recent World Bank's Development Marketplace (DM) ...
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13/01/2004	Asia's Forests Head to China - Beijing's Logging Ban Sparks Fears of Deforestation Abroad HONG KONG -- A flood in China is endangering the forests of Southeast Asia and Russia. ...	David Lague - The Wall Street Journal Online
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21/12/2003	20% of timber in Danish-Russian trade could be illegal Copenhagen, Denmark - A report released today by WWF shows that there is a risk that companies in Denmark ...	WWF
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26/11/2003	Russian timber company to introduce new system to control timber origin Plastun village, Russian Far East - A system of supply and control of timber origin is being introduced ...	www.Panda.org
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PRESENTATIONS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
06/07/2012	Legal timber flows in Asia - Russian Far East production and trade analysis	Katsunori Sasaki, Forest and Biodiversity Conservation Program, Friends of the Earth Japan
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01/10/2008	Russia in the context of global trade in wood-based products and illegal timber	James Hewitt
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09/06/2008	The Russian experience of fighting illegal logging and trade in illegally logged timber	Nikolay N Kashpor, Head of Forest Inventory and Assessment Department, Russia
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05/02/2008	Concept of Russian National Action Plan for preventing illegal logging and associated trade	Federal Forestry Agency of Russia
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01/11/2007	Sino-Russia Timber Trade & Cooperation in Forestry	China Wood International, Inc. (Hongfan Li)
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01/11/2007	Validation of Legal Timber Programme (SGS VLTP): Russia, Far Eastern Region	SGS Forestry Monitoring Services (Andrey Zakharenkov)
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09/07/2007	Russian activity in combating illegal logging in the framework of ENA-FLEG process	Russian Federal Agency for Forestry
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26/04/2007	Russian softwood in China: Commodity chain study	Beijing Forestry University (Baodong Cheng and Weiming Song)
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26/04/2007	Update on Russian forest sector and Russian-Chinese relations: WWF view	WWF Russia (Elena Kulikova)
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26/01/2007	Update on Russian forest sector: WWF view	WWF Russia (Elena Kulikova)
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26/01/2007	China and the global market for forest products: Look at Africa and Russia	Forest Trends (Kerstin Canby)
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03/04/2006	Verification of wood origin: Russia case study	Stora Enso Wood Supply (Anna-Liisa Myllynen)
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20/01/2006	The Forests Dialogue's ENA FLEG Dialogue	The Forests Dialogue (Gary Dunning)
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20/01/2006	Ministerial segment at ENA FLEG conference	IUCN Russia (Victor Teplyakov)
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20/01/2006	Validation of legal timber programme (VLTP) in the Russian Far-East	SGS (Andrey Zakharenkov and Antoine de la Rochefordiere)
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EVENTS

DATE	TITLE
Wednesday 22nd May 2013	Forest Products and Technologies for the Future The Russian Federal Forestry Agency and the ECE-FAO Forestry and Timber Section are pleased to announce ...
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Monday 13th October 2008	Bucharest: Expert Meeting on Forest Law Enforcement and Governance An expert meeting on forest law enforcement and government took place in Bucharest between the 13th and ...
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Wednesday 1st October 2008	Taiga Rescue Network Annual Conference: Effective forest use - Effective forest protection The conference gathered stakeholders of the worlds boreal eco-region who are interested in equitable ...
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Wednesday 26th March 2008	Meeting of Russia's Interagency Commission on Combating Illegal Logging and Timber Trade Russia's Interagency Commission for Combating Illegal Logging and Timber Trade was established in ...
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Thursday 26th April 2007	China and the Global Forest Products Trade First of a series of 6-monthly 'Chatham House' Chinese stakeholder consultations in Beijing. ...
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Thursday 17th August 2006	Forest Products Trade between Russia and China: Encouraging Responsible Enterprise through a Solid Investment Climate This one-and-a-half day meeting discussed how responsible industry engagement, a positive investment ...
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Tuesday 16th May 2006	Workshop on the Implementation of the ENA FLEG Ministerial Declaration In follow up to the ENA FLEG Ministerial Conference, the Turkish Government, in collaboration with the ...
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Thursday 2nd February 2006	Public hearing: voluntary certification and verification of legal timber More than 120 students from the Vyazemsk Forest College worked on identifying measures to control illegal ...
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Thursday 19th January 2006	Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation Number 7 The seventh in a regular series of meetings coordinated by Chatham House and funded by DFID. The meeting ...
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Wednesday 2nd November 2005	The Forests Dialogue: Second Dialogue on Illegal Logging This dialogue was designed to produce a statement - in the form of a co-chairs summary - to inform and ...
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Thursday 2nd December 2004	Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation Number 5 The fifth in a series of policy update meetings hosted by Chatham House and funded by DFID. The meeting ...
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Thursday 16th September 2004	Joint UNECE/FAO Workshop ...
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LINKS

TITLE	DESCRIPTION	REPORT
Caucasus Environmental NGO Network mailing list	CENN is an unmoderated mailing list, maintaining email discussions between the network's members. The list distributes both daily news and monthly bulletins in English and Russian.	Broken link
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Certified Wood Update	NEPCon (Nature, Ecology and People Consult) is a non-profit consultancy company working with sustainable natural resource management worldwide. Their Certified Wood Update newsletter covers issues related to forest and wood industry certification, with a particular focus on Europe and Russia (available in English, Polish and Russian). This link takes you to their subscription page.	Broken link
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ENPI FLEG	The ENPI FLEG Programme “Improving Forest Law Enforcement and Governance in the European Neighbourhood Policy East Countries and Russia” supports governments, civil society, and the private sector in participating countries in the development of sound and sustainable forest management practices, including reducing the incidence of illegal forestry activities. Participating countries include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine. This programme is funded by the European Union.	Broken link
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Ministerial Conference for the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE)	The MCPFE is a political initiative working towards the protection and sustainable management of forests in Europe. It involves 44 European countries, the EC, and cooperates with countries outside of Europe and international organizations that participate as observers.	Broken link
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SGS Verification of Legal Timber Programme	The VLTP implemented in the Khabarovsk region in the far east of Russia is based on the creation of a unique public-private partnership between the regional Government, SGS as independent verifier and a local partner.	Broken link
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Taiga Rescue Network	TRN is an international network of NGOs and indigenous peoples working for the protection of the world's boreal forests which cover the far northern regions of North America, Russia and Europe. They have produced various publications on illegal logging. To view ENA FLEG documents, including Chinese and Russian translations, click here.	Broken link
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UPM - Tracing Russian Wood	UPM is one of the world's largest forest products companies. This site focuses on how the company carries out its wood sourcing operations in Russia. The site is the continuation and development of a United Nations award-winning project that aims to increase transparency in the paper supply chain.	Broken link
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