Seven of the top ten Russian birch ply exporters are still supplying the EU, including firms linked to billionaire oligarchs Alexei Mordashov and Vladimir Yevtushenkov who met with Putin on the day of ...

One of them, Alexei Mordashov, is on the EU sanctions list. Another, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, is the main shareholder of Russia's largest logging company. In addition, Belarusian state-owned companies ...