In September 2025, after receiving numerous complaints from people, I encountered an incredible mess in forest management. After a trip to the forest, the State Duma bluntly stated: There is no reliable picture of what's happening to forests in the regions. The federal forest management system in the #Russian Federation is unreliable. The information in the system is a lie. And so today we're in the forest. Sverdlovsk Region, Nizhny Tagil Forestry. "We" is the Ministry of Natural Resources