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Issue 29, September 2005

Summary

V. Zakharov. Country Living Apart from Moscow
Despite the significance of the upcoming FLEG ministerial meeting in Moscow, regions are slightly aware of it. Participation in Action Plan and other documents development is limited to Moscow forest officers...

I. Shutov. Strength and Weaknesses of the New Forest Code
The foresters are sure that the proposed Forest Code is a requiem for 200-year old forestry system of Russia. Is there a way out?

Citizens - to President Putin: the New Forest Code is Good for Nothing
The Russian Presidents Department on citizens relations has noticed discontent and published a note "On Citizens Adresses on Forest Code".

V. Minina. Is the Forest Still People's Wealth?
Further life of the people in the forest regions will depend on the forest rent owners... If nothing chnages in the proposed Forest Code project

A.Grigoriev. FLEG Process in Russia - Marrying Heaven and Earth?
What has lead to the current level of violations in Russian forestry? What are the real causes and social consequences? How to avoid growth of corruption and social discontent?

From the Archives: M.Orlov. Forestry: goals, ways and development
Lecture held on September 17, 1984 for students of Novo-Alexandrisky Institute of Agriculture and Forestry. The article reviews development of forestry practive in Europe and their influence on Russian forestry. It has historical interest and has not lost its educational significance. Some ideas may turn out quite new for some forest experts.

I.Fufaeva. We Leave Growing Forest, Not a Battlefield
Experience of forestry enterprise in Nizhny Novgorod region.

K.Kochetkova. Good Forester Leaves the Worst for Fuelwood
Today forestry has to survive apart from the state. The main goal of the forestry unit is to provide salary for forest workers and support their families - to prevent them from leaving the forest.

E.Potapova, V.Cvetkov. The System of Conservational Forestry on Little Disturbed Areas
The article drafts scheme of the system of conservational, forest-spearing forestry, which would allow to balance opposite, form the firat sight, goals - environmental and socio-economic, help find a compromise for the problem.

B. Nekrasov. The Axe of Science
The experimental scientific cedar felling in Tomsk regions has lead to scientificall y based cedar groves' decay.

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