Legal problems of protection of forest resources
Today in Russia, economic conditions are being actively created for the development of market relations, in parallel with this, the preservation of the forest fund and its protection from destruction are of concern. The purpose of this study is to consider the legal problems of the protection of forest resources in the Russian Federation. The conducted systematic literature review and content analysis showed that today there are a number of problems in the field of forest protection, they are discussed in more detail in the article. In order to eliminate the problems discussed in the article and other problems, the Government of the Russian Federation and the President of the Russian Federation are making efforts to ensure the legal protection of forest resources. Within the framework of this study, the following legislative acts and measures were considered: Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation “On strengthening control over the circulation of timber and counteracting its illegal harvesting”, “Action plan for solving problems in the field of combating illegal harvesting and trafficking in timber”, Decree of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation “ On measures to improve the state policy in the field of forestry”, a meeting on the development and decriminalization of the forest complex of September 29, 2020, drawing up a new map of Russian forests, etc., participation in international forest protection legislative activities.