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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.

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 “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

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

Suspect timber firms lobby for certified wood ‘green lane’ in draft EU anti-deforestation law

09.11.2021 Influential timber industry group run by firms guilty of logging and wood trading abuses calls for proposed EU rules to wave through wood certified by dubious sustainability schemes

Relying on green labels to address our thirst for products of deforestation would be a disaster

08.11.2021 New EU deforestation law must learn the lessons of the past

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