Russia Increasing Role in International Drug Prohibition

... Conference President Putin emphasised the necessity of combating ‘all kinds of drugs’, and asserted the liberalisation of global drug policy to be a ‘dangerous path’.[5] Meanwhile, the head of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian ... ... 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 ...