Alexander Churkin: “Everything will be fine with our birch tree”

Last year, Russian loggers tossed between problems and opportunities. On the one hand, since July, the EU has banned the import of their products, foreign maritime carriers left Russian ports, and the railway could not cope with the increased traffic. On the other hand, foreign competitors left the Russian market, abandoning equipment and even ready-made enterprises. Alexander Churkin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Vologda Lesopromyshlenniki Group of Companies (VLP), spoke in an interview with Vedomosti about how the timber merchants coped with this turbulence.