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Amendments to EUDR could harm EU efforts to block Russian and Belarusian ‘conflict timber’

14.07.2025 Changes could incentivise laundering of wood into the EU

EU Commission, Parliament respond to ‘blood birch’ scandal – now the Council must act

16.05.2025 Wood sanctions must be expanded to tackle the oligarch-linked trade

Blood-stained birch: Exposing the EU trade in Russian conflict ply

29.01.2025 Firms admit laundering Russian wood into the EU, in sanctions-busting trade worth over €1.5bn

Earthsight files complaints against 31 EU firms following confirmation of Russian wood use by their birch ply suppliers

16.04.2024 Earthsight has filed EUTR complaints pertaining to 31 firms across nine member states whose suppliers were confirmed by the EU to be using Russian wood

Taiga King 2: Back In Business

21.02.2022 Russian tycoon Alexander Pudovkin flooded Europe with dirty wood. He and his customers got away with it

Ikea's House of Horrors

15.07.2021 Ikea has for years sold children's furniture made from wood linked to vast illegal logging in protected forests in Russia.

The illegal Russian wood hidden inside Ikea children’s furniture

15.07.2021 A new Earthsight investigation unpacks Ikea's latest illegal timber problem

Europe awash with wood from billion-dollar Russian illegal logging scandal

16.12.2020 Spies. Lies. Lumber. A new Earthsight investigation

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