... Faced with increasing drug-related mortality, complementing law enforcement and regional initiatives with a softer approach at home is the next logical step.
A Threat to National and Human Security: Developments and Continuities in the Afghan Drug Trade
Drug trafficking in Russia is far from being a recent problem. The drastic rise of organised crime in the tumultuous years that followed the fall of the USSR, as well as the newly opened and poorly controlled borders with former Soviet states, has facilitated ...
... missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The discussion covered the issues of building trust between Russia and the United States as the countries with the greatest potential to successfully confront international challenges, namely the growth of drug trafficking (especially heroin black trading), the spread of weapons of mass destruction, of chemical and biological weapons, and their falling into the hands of terrorist groups. The participants of the meeting emphasized the need to establish a ...
... also repeatedly called for greater attempts by NATO to prevent heroin production in Afghanistan. To a certain extent the dominance of security discourse in Russian drug policy is inevitable. Whereas Western European states may face social threats from drug trafficking, basic state security is never significantly threatened. In comparison, Russia shares a 7000 kilometer border with Central Asia, through which an estimated 95 tonnes of heroin leaves Afghanistan via the Northern Route. This inevitably ...
... drug production and trafficking: trafficking in fire arms, trafficking in illegal migrants, extortion, human trafficking supplying "human goods" to the sexual services market, software theft, etc. The most powerful OCGs continued to deal in drug trafficking, using violence to eliminate competition and secure drug trafficking routes. In 2000-2009, incidents of drug trafficking related crime
increased 260 percent
from 24,950 to 63,404. The abrupt increase in criminal activity resulted from ...
