Tag: state

Ministry for Nature prepared bioenergy stimulation plan

Russian government approved the plan on stimulation of renewable wood resources utilization in heat and power generation. Development of this industry will require changes in the legislation and will be tested in five Russian regions, according to Russian...

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...

Pulp & paper companies prepared amendments to the draft Forest Policy at the Adam Smith Conference in Vienna

Vienna, December 21. Austria’s capital hosted 17th Adam Smith Conference “Pulp & Paper in Russia and CIS” in early December. Following the results of it, a workgroup will prepare a Resolution of the conference and send it to...

Belarusian president prohibited forest workers to quit their jobs until mill modernization is finished

Minsk, December 04. Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko paid a visit to Borisovdrev mill and made a regulation to prohibit all the workers in the industry to quit their jobs until modernization of the state holding BelLesBumProm is finished....

FAO: Russian lumber production to grow by 3.5-4 million cu m by 2016

Rome, December 04. Logging and production of lumber, wood-based panels, pulp, and paper will further grow in Russia until 2030, as predicted by the experts in a joint study made by FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation of United...

Yugra government evaluated forest roads construction in the region at €31.9 million

Khanty-Mansiysk, November 30. According to the draft project of social and economic development strategy of Yugra autonomous district, it is planned to invest 12.8 billion Rubles (€31.9 million) into all-season forest roads in the region on private-public partnership...

New forest department directors appointed in Tomsk and Arkhangelsk

Tomsk-Arkhangelsk, November 27. Vladimir Zablotskiy has been appointed head of the forestry department in Tomsk region, as regional press service reported. Vladimir Zablotskiy was born in 1955 in Altai region. He graduated from Siberia Technological Institute in Krasnoyarsk...

Karelia to become the first Russian region to use intensive forest management

Petrozavodsk, November 22. Karelian government has agreed with Russian Forest Service (Rosleskhoz) that Karelia would become the first region to use intensive forest management methods, as announced by Karelian governor Aleksandr Hudilainen commenting on the results of the...