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23.10.2009, 01:02
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Russia has become the biggest consumer of Afghan heroin with 21% of all the drug consumed in the world, as of the latest UN Office on Drugs and Crime report “Addiction, Crime and Insurgency” published on October 21.
12.10.2009, 13:25
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Next to nothing is being done internationally to tackle drug production in Afghanistan. Russia is taking a stand against the opium flow from Asia alone, states Russia's Federal Drug Control Service Head Viktor Ivanov.
25.09.2009, 09:36
Russia’s anti-narcotics chief, Viktor Ivanov, describes the US policy in tackling the drugs issue as "insufficient", but insists Russia and the US should join their efforts to fight the drug trade.
16.08.2010, 17:35
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The new commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan says a July 2011 deadline for ending the protracted military operation may turn out to be mission impossible.
07.06.2010, 15:14
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Tajikistan has expressed its dissatisfaction over the Russian vice speaker’s and health minister’s comments on the Central Asian republic, which followed an outbreak of polio in the country.
15.12.2009, 09:43
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NATO’s new chief, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is to arrive in Moscow on Tuesday to seek assistance in Afghanistan and discuss Russia’s proposal for a new European security architecture.
28.09.2010, 14:32
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The Russian president has signed a decree firing Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, who was in power for almost two decades.
17.12.2009, 15:06
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President Medvedev has signed a climate doctrine that sets measures Russia will take to avoid the possible consequences of climate change, his aide Arkady Dvorkovich has told a media conference.
27.07.2010, 16:32
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Modernization is not just a conversion to an innovation economy, but requires fighting corruption, decreasing administrative barriers and the development of fair competition, President Dmitry Medvedev has said.
22.10.2010, 12:42
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Russia’s President Medvedev has discussed with his Turkmen counterpart prospects for future co-operation between the two states. Energy efficiency and new technology will be a priority.
Published: 18 August, 2010, 13:16
Edited: 26 August, 2010, 13:17
President Dmitry Medvedev is hosting a summit on terrorism and drug trafficking in Russia's city of Sochi with the leaders of Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan.
As the World Drug Report of 2009 demonstrates, the Taliban almost eradicated opium production by 2001, but after the U.S. invasion drug production increased not just to previous levels (about 70,000 hectares of land for opium) but over twice the previous levels (reaching 190.000 hectares in 2008) That has caused a high cost in lifes, Social Security and criminal activity to the Russian Federation.