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11.01.2010, 07:29
While international forces in Afghanistan spend billions to build up a security system there, local police fail to tackle flourishing drug trade and insurgent violence and even foreign training projects don’t help.
30.09.2010, 13:24
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A UN survey has found that the illegal cultivation and a rising demand for hard drugs like opium and heroin is pulling Afghanistan apart, continuing to plague an already fragile nation.
17.11.2009, 17:48
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Russia’s Central Asian neighbor shares many of Moscow’s same concerns, and this has helped to forge a dynamic partnership between the two countries.
21.10.2009, 14:10
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President Obama's administration's still ruminating over whether or not to send more troops into Afghanistan. Investigative journalist Gerald Posner spoke to RT about al-Qaeda and the Taliban's latest weapon.
26.05.2009, 15:55
Kyrgyzstan has closed its borders to Uzbekistan. Officials say the move follows a request from the neighboring country. Kyrgyz media claim the request was made after a shooting in the adjoining Andijan province.
29.10.2010, 16:00
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Two hundred million doses of heroin have been destroyed in Afghanistan thanks to the joint efforts of Russia and the US, Russia's drug control chief said on Friday.
05.02.2010, 17:37
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Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in response to the use of any types of weapons of mass destruction against it or any of its allies. President Medvedev has approved Russia’s new military doctrine.
28.03.2010, 08:15
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NATO and Russia have failed to reach a consensus in a tug of war over tackling the Afghan drug problem. The alliance has rejected Moscow’s appeal to eradicate opium poppy fields in the Islamic Republic.
23.03.2010, 20:16
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Europe fears that large quantities of Afghan heroin may flood into the EU via Russia if the current visa regime is lifted.
07.10.2010, 17:43
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When the US opened “Operation Enduring Freedom” in Afghanistan following 9/11, few people questioned the decision. But today, after nine years of sacrifice, that attitude is changing.
Published: 19 January, 2010, 09:29
Edited: 19 January, 2010, 14:26
It is possible to eradicate drug production in Afghanistan, but the locals should be provided with an alternative livelihood, says Pino Arlacchi, former director of the UN Office for Drugs Control and Crime Prevention.
Eliminating opium production in Afghanistan is very easy indeed only if there is real will to do so. It could be done from air ,by pilotless drones in few days all crops could be sprayed and people on the ground could go on producing some edible foods and other things. However it's clear that some people do not want to do this because they want to go on with producing drugs and try to gradually destroy fabric of societies such as Russia where around one hundred people die every day from those drugs. People who are organizing all this production are the same ones or descendants of those ones who participated in "Opium War" when opium was produced in India and then distributed to China which caused demise of China's society. In case of Afghanistan we are talking about hundreds of tons of raw material and chemicals for production which are huge quantities and this could not be done without knowledge of states who are involved there. This is perhaps very reason of they involvement in first place.