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Michal Tomeš

Michal Tomeš is a journalist at Deník N. He began his journalism career while studying journalism, joining the university radio station in Olomouc and contributing to The Student Times. He then spent three years at the business daily E15. After a six-month study stay in France, he started writing for Deník N, where he continues to cover business and economic affairs.

In theory it’s from China, in reality it’s from Moscow – how sanctioned Russian timber keeps flowing into Czech Republic
6 July 2026 by Lukáš Prchal and Michal Tomeš
By quietly rerouting sanctioned timber through China, Kazakhstan and EU neighbours, Russian suppliers are testing whether Europe’s fractured enforcement can uphold its own wartime embargoes.