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03.03.2009, 14:08

Spice it up!

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.

AFP Photo / Massoud Hossaini 26.10.2008, 13:03

Opium trade keeps Taliban in business

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

Frame by  Lizette Potgieter 12.09.2008, 14:06 4 comments

Seeds of Pain: Afghan drug addiction

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

An Afghan policeman stands guard as six and a half tonnes of drugs burn during an anti-narcotics ceremony (AFP Photo / Massoud Hossaini) 10.06.2010, 10:00 4 comments

Moscow hosts global summit on heroin plague

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.

Afghanistan, Kabul: An Afghan policeman keeps watch at a checkpoint in Kabul on July 19, 2010. (AFP Photo / Shah Marai) 20.07.2010, 12:04 3 comments

A lot still has to be done in Afghanistan - Russian FM

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 5 comments

Man jailed for kidnapping drug addicts and forcing them into rehab

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 15 comments

Many hopeful about Russian scientist’s anti-aging drug

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 8 comments

Drug dealers standing in the way to visa-free Russia

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 6 comments

The monkey on Russia’s back

At least 80 people die of heroin abuse in Russia every day, with the vast majority of supplies coming from Afghanistan.

RIA Novosti 18.01.2010, 18:17 4 comments

“Russia is a huge illegal drug market that Afghan traffickers want to expand”

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.

Poppy seeds: food or drug?

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

 
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