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NEWS
RELATED TO RUSSIA
2000
March
30 Opinion poll in Karelia According
to an opinion poll made in Russian Karelia the problems with the Karelian
forest sector are due to exporting the best timber to Finland at low
price. People are also eager to protect more forests >>>
Read the results of the poll
March
14 Metsäliitto
bought wood from a Russian company logging in a planned protection
area in the Murmansk region According to the Kola Scientific Centre
and local NGOs, Finnish forest company Metsäliitto purchased
at least 12 000 cubic meters of timber from the planned Lapland Forest
protection area. >>>
Press release
1999
June
14 "The
Finnish Forest Industry in Russia - on the Thorny Path Towards Ecological
and Social Responsibility" - report has just been published.
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Read the report.
April
9
Old-growth forest wood from Russian moratorium areas to Finland
Moratorium
expanding towards east in Archangel, Komi and Vologda regions >>>
Press release
1998
September
17 Serious violation of the Karelian old-growth forest logging
moratorium Road being built into the Paanajärvi wilderness
>>> Press release
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