Tag: Rosleskhoz

Russian Timber Journal 09-2020: how a ban on exports of softwood and hardwood logs and precious hardwood will impact the Russian timber industry; the Government of the Russian Federation is adopting measures to encourage wood processing; interview with Alexey Ryzhikov, Saint Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange (SPIMEX) CEO; EU to launch anti-dumping procedure for birch plywood imports from Russia

Russian Timber Journal 09-2020: Vladimir Putin gave a directive to introduce a ban on exporting unprocessed or roughly processed timber products from Russian as of January 1, 2022, how this decision will impact the Russian timber industry; the Government of...

Russian Federal Forestry Agency reports about lower timber harvesting level

In 2019, the volume of timber harvesting decreased by 8.1% YoY to 219.2 million m³ (figures from Rosleskhoz). Statistic shows that all federal districts have reduced the harvesting of logs. Only eight Russian regions with level more 1...

Russian Timber Journal 06-2020: interview with Thomas Meth, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Enviva Partners; plywood export from Russia demonstrates confident growth; according to Rosleskhoz data, timber harvesting in Russia reduced by 8% in 2019 by final Rosleskhoz data

Russian Timber Journal 06-2020: interview with Thomas Meth, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Enviva Partners; plywood export from Russia demonstrates confident growth; according to Rosleskhoz data, timber harvesting in Russia reduced by 8% in 2019...

Russian Timber Journal 01-2020: Russia: the strongest decline in exports of logs since 2008 continues; In 2019, exports of sawn timber from Russia to China exceeded 20 million m3; Uranium One Expands Geography of Wood Pellets Sales; Vietnam bans import of Chinese plywood

Russian Timber Journal 01-2020: Primary data on forest products production in 2019 shows a growth in the production of mechanically processed wood products amidst a decline in the pulp and paper industry by almost any measure. Russia continues...

Russian Timber Journal №04-2019: In 2018, the world sawn timber trade fell for the first time in five years; analytical study of WhatWood on the market of raw timber in Russia; decline in prices and volumes of trade in sawn timber on world markets; another record of China’s imports of round timber

Russian Timber Journal №04-2019: Russian Timber Journal 04-2019: In 2018, the world sawn timber trade fell for the first time in five years; WhatWood’s interview with CEO of RFP Group Dmitry Valtfogel; disbalance between the demand and supply...

Russian forestry key results of 2018 and tasks for 2019

Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) held the annual nationwide meeting on Russian forestry on March 27, 2019. According to Rosleskhoz, forest use revenues of the Russian budget in 2018 amounted to 46.0 billion rubles, which is +38% YoY (or 12.6 billion rubles). An...

The head of the Federal forestry Agency Ivan Valentik: “Combating illegal harvesting and trafficking of wood – coordinated work of the Federal forestry agency,Ministry of internal affairs, Federal customs service and the entire law enforcement system of the Russian Federation”

Yesterday, February 14, 2019, at a plenary meeting of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation by deputies in the first reading was unanimously adopted the draft Federal law “On introducing amendments to Russian...

At the meeting with the head of the Federal Forestry Agency Ivan Valentik Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Aleksei Pesoshin said: “the Development of forestry is one of the priorities for Tatarstan”

Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Alexey Pesoshin on February 08, 2019 took part in the meeting “Efficiency of execution of the delegated powers of the Russian Federation in the field of forest relations by the subjects...

Rosleskhoz: the number of illegal logging in the Sverdlovsk region decreased by 37 %

Last week, a meeting of the Commission for the prevention of illegal logging and timber trafficking in the Sverdlovsk region was held. The meeting was held by the regional Minister of industry and science Sergey Perestoronin. He also...

The Federal forestry agency called the number of forest fires in 2018

According to RIA Novosti, almost 10 thousand forest fires are registered in Russia in 2018. This was reported by the Deputy head of the Federal forestry agency (Rosleskhoz) Nikolai Krotov at the meeting “Topical issues of respect for...

Expert Council: A Challenging Start

WhatWood attended the first meeting of the Forest Industry Expert Council at State Duma on Friday, April 19. The main topic at the event was draft law on control and inventory of roundwood trade to fight illegal logging....

VAT return cancellation, wood commodity exchange and state co-financing: proposals of regional governors to Putin at the State Council

President Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the State Council in Ulan-Ude (Buryatia Republic, Siberia) dedicated to the problems of the forest industry. The participants of the meeting discussed a lot of issues of the industry and proposed...