The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko has made a proposal to impose a temporary embargo on the export of timber from Russia. "as long as we just do not understand, do not accept the government measures, has the ability to be stop a while timber abroad?" she said at the meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Matvienko asked the Prime Minister to instruct the test all the lease forest areas in the country " on the legality of their detention ". According to the speaker, currently in practice, the entire forest industry of Russia is located in the " informal sector ". As an example, she cited the felling under the guise of health protection. The head of the upper house of Parliament the reason for this situation considers the shortcomings in the legislation. Matviyenko made a proposal Medvedev without delay to draft a bill to combat illegal logging and export of wood from Russia. in early December, 2018 Medvedev told reporters that he had discussed the problems of the forest industry with the President. He said that the company is currently introducing a system of marking of forest objects, which will allow you to track, " where each log has appeared, who and when cut off ". The Prime Minister said that the oversight of forests is important because the forest is the wealth of the country, which ought to be preserved for posterity. <span style="color:darkgray