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Thousands of young Russians falling to drug trade
Published: 08 September, 2010, 18:38
Edited: 10 October, 2010, 23:29
Russia’s prospering drug trade could claim up to 30,000 young Russian lives this year alone. The country is the world’s third largest drug consumer after Afghanistan and Iran.
Oleg Safonov, deputy director of the Federal Drug Control Service, said on Thursday that the 18 to 35 year age group is most at risk, adding that cocaine deliveries, in particular, have increased massively in recent years.
“Compared to 2008, cocaine deliveries has risen sixfold. Before, the drug was coming to Russia from Western Europe via St. Petersburg, Poland, Ukraine and Belarus. Now it follows the route Africa-South Europe-Black Sea,” Safonov said.
Synthetic drugs are also on the rise in Russia and are being distributed mostly in places popular among the young, he added.
However the Afghan heroin still makes up the majority of the drugs coming to Russia. The country’s government has repeatedly called on its allies to step up effort in battling drug trafficking from Afghanistan.
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Before the signing of the START treaty I had suggested that Mr Medvedev require that drugs be included in the weapons of mass destruction. Destroying a society from inside is also a strategy used to control it... Satellites ' photography allows Russia and America to know each square meter of the planet. If the NATO-USA bunch wanted with 140000 soldiers and as many mercenaries, they could easily burn and destroy all Afghan drugs in one day. The same thing apply on all continents. Unfortunately money making is humanity's most dangerous drug and human life means nothing. Sorry Future Generations, our actual world leadership is insane and stupid (like the specimen Clinton, Obama, Sarkozy, Medvedev etc)...Best Regards... Jean-Claude Meslin
Yes, over 30,000 Russians die every year from AIDS (which is mostly a consequence of heroin) while only 500 die in the U.K. for example, with half the population. So for the Russian Federation 5,000 AIDS deads a year would be enough, and that means 300,000 Russian lifes, would-be workers or soldiers, are lost every decade and that amount could be reduced 90% reaching Western European levels. Just a reduction to Western levels in the number of Russians who die in car accidents (which already has been successfuly reduced) and from AIDS and drug overdose would mean over half a million Russian lifes saved, and that means saving $billions in Health Care costs and a native increase in the Russian population without immigration... So efficiency will be tested during this decade on the level of drug addiction, as on the level of alcohol addiction, and car accidents. Perhaps after Americans leave Afghanistan the Taliban (or the like) will again eradicate opium as they wouldn´t need selling it to get military gadgets to fight the Occupation...
Today October 10th I just watched on RT the interview of Mr Ivanov head of the Russian anti-narcotics office by Miss Galushko. It was so ridiculous, trying to find excuses for the US-NATO bunch for not solving the Afghan drugs trafficking. In a previous comment (a month ago) I explain that drugs are WMD. They are even more dangerous because used in the most sneaky way to destroy an adversary from the inside. Wake up Misters Ivanov, Medvedev, Putin and all the Kremlin's brass, N-PiPO, Rasmussen, the Pentagon and all the imperialist creeps are not your friends. They just want Russia to capitulate and let the Pax-America take over the World. This can be avoided but we desperately need an other kind of leadership for taking a few radical measures and explaining to the World a few facts... Sorry Future Generations...Your friend: Jean-Claude Meslin