Russia warns China it could ban timber exports over illegal logging - Vedomosti

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia could ban timber exports to China unless Beijing takes action to help mitigate the effects of illegal logging, a Russian government minister said in an interview published on Thursday. Russian authorities this month attributed some of the vast wildfires that have engulfed portions of Siberia in recent weeks to arsonists trying to conceal illegal logging activity. Dmitry Kobylkin, Russia's minister of natural resources and environment, used an interview with the daily..