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03.03.2009, 14:08
An Afghan peasant has been honoured with the state’s highest award, the Ghazi Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan State Medal, for growing saffron instead of opium in his native province of Herat.
26.10.2008, 13:03
Afghanistan is still the largest supplier of the world’s heroin and its illicit drug trade poses the gravest threat to the country’s long-term security, development and effective governance, particularly since Taliban mi
12.09.2008, 14:06
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This is a drug addicted Afghan family. The Afghan government's slack approach to poverty and opium cultivation has had a direct effect on Afghan society. One can find drugs everywhere in Afghanistan. The husband started smoking opium when he was six, but
10.06.2010, 10:00
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The very best minds in the anti-narcotics business are holding a major conference in Moscow. The primary concern is the flow of drugs from Afghanistan, something that is far more destructive than terrorism.
20.07.2010, 12:04
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The Afghan capital Kabul is hosting its biggest international conference in decades as 60 nations are expected to produce an agreement on handing power back to Afghan forces by 2014.
13.10.2010, 16:23
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The 23-year-old head of a controversial Russian drug clinic has been sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for abducting addicts and forcing them into rehabilitation.
13.09.2010, 06:31
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A Russian scientist says he has beaten the problem of aging and in just a few years the medicine that stops it will go on sale.
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.
14.05.2009, 09:31
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At least 80 people die of heroin abuse in Russia every day, with the vast majority of supplies coming from Afghanistan.
18.01.2010, 18:17
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The Afghan war has led to a boom in the state’s drugs production. Russia is on the main supply route to Europe and has more heroin addicts than the whole of Western Europe, claims Italian MEP Pino Arlacchi.
Published: 11 March, 2009, 15:59
A car loaded with poppy rolls has been detained by the Federal Drug Control Service. The rolls were meant for human rights activists – participants of a protest organized near the building in the centre of Moscow
