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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
Commentary: Biden’s sanctions on Russia should include timber exports
06.03.2024 New US sanctions target hundreds of Russian entities and individuals, but should also cover areas that are good for the planet
Some – but not all – Russian conflict timber imports banned in US
27.11.2023 The US Treasury Department has banned one of the largest and most controversial suppliers of Russian conflict plywood
Imports of Russian ‘’conflict timber’’ for US kitchens linked to logging in ancient virgin forests
20.09.2023 US firms continue to purchase plywood from Russian companies
“Conflict timber” worth over $1bn sold in US since Ukraine invasion
24.02.2023 America’s continued trade in Russian ‘conflict timber is aiding terror in Ukraine and further enriching ultrawealthy Russians close to Putin
REVEALED: Russian “conflict timber” worth over $1bn sold in the US
24.02.2023 Ukrainian activists say America’s business in Russian wood is helping to fuel Putin’s invasion
Revealed: Russian oligarchs make a killing off multibillion-dollar wood trade with West
11.03.2022 Putin’s cronies are behind major logging firms and wood exporters
Russia’s timber oligarchs
11.03.2022 Industry titans make a killing off multibillion-dollar wood trade with Western firms
Ikea, FSC actions on Siberia illegal logging scandal are a start. In our climate crisis, they must do much more
06.09.2021 Swedish retail giant and green timber label have moved to address problem of illegal sanitary felling in eastern Russia, but their measures must go further
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.
