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EU Commission avoids reopening the EUDR but proposes unjustifiable exemption for leather
04.05.2026 Policymakers cave to leather sector lobbying
Press release: Blood-stained birch
29.01.2025 Firms admit laundering Russian wood into the EU, in sanctions-busting trade worth over €1.5bn
Press Release: Cargo ship loaded with €40m of Russian conflict timber seized in Germany
22.03.2024 Sanctioned Russian plywood worth an estimated €40 million seized
Revealed: Timber linked to Russia’s Wagner private army on sale in Europe
16.05.2023 Scandal has implications for new law meant to address EU role in deforestation overseas
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
“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 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
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
