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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
Press release: Blood-stained birch
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
Russian “conflict timber” worth over $400 million bought by Japan since Ukraine invasion
22.03.2023 Imports linked to illegal logging profit oligarchs & Russian gov't
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
Taiga King: Russian court lets off timber tycoon who admitted bribes
23.12.2020 BM Group chief Alexander Pudovkin walks free after case dismissed
