Tag: Rosleskhoz

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...

WTO possibly to stop a line at Kondopoga

Newsprint maker Kondopoga mill (Republic of Karelia) will have to stop one of its paper-making machines after new rates will become active due to Russia’s accession to WTO, as head of Federal Forest Agency (Rosleskhoz) Viktor Maslyakov supposed at the agency...

Forest Service and Greenpeace differ in estimations of forest fire area

Federal Forest Service of Russia (Rosleskhoz) announced that 230 forest fires areactive in Russia on the area of 25,000 hectares, as of July 29. According to Emergencies Ministry, as of July 28, 4,600 people and 570 units wereengaged in...