9-13 December 2013 in Rovaniemi, Finland, hosted events ECE / FAO of the UN, which included: a joint session of the Committee on Forests and Forest Industry UNECE and the Forestry Commission, FAO - "Metsä 2013", Working Group meeting Sustainable Forestry Finnish-Russian Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation, as well as more than 30 concurrent international events and field trips. Russian delegation was headed by Deputy Head of the Federal Forestry Agency AV Panfilov.

FBU VNIILM in events were deputy directors Bolshakov BM and Filipchuk AN

In the festive opening of the joint session of the FAO / ECE and the European Forest Week participated Chapchikova Vera, winner of the X International Junior Forest Contest, held in September 2013 in Russia (Khanty-Mansiysk). She, along with Santa Claus, the second destination after the European Forest Week, inaugurated the event.

Under the "Metsa-2013» December 10, a regular meeting of the Working Group on Sustainable Forestry Finnish-Russian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation (WG). In frames WG issues of interaction of the Russian Federation and Finland based on enacted the EU regulation on round timber and its implications for international cooperation, issues of forest bioenergy and investment. On the situation in the Russian Federation, forestry and investment priority projects of forest development in Russia, the deputy director of the FBI VNIILM BM Bolshakov.