
Voronezh region: Pilot region in Russian Federation to implement ENPI East Countries FLEG II Program
On November 27, 2013, The Voronezh government website announced that a meeting was held between the Vice-Governor of the Voronezh region, the Head of the Department of Property and Land Relations Maxim Uvaidov, and other high ranking forestry officials in the region and representatives and experts from the EU funded FLEG II Program.

COP-19: Statement from the Special Representative of the President on Climate, A. Bedritskiy, about Russia's position on forests and forest policy
Warsaw (Poland), November 11, 2013 – In climate talks opening this week, the Russian Special Representative of the President on Climate, Alexander Ivanovich Bedritskiy, made an official announcement regarding Russia’s position on the main agenda of the 19th Conference of Parties (COP 19) to the 1992 United Nationas Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 9th session of the Meeting of the Parties (CMP 9) to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.