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To effectively fight heroin production and trafficking, Russia needs to invest big time into Afghanistan, just as it did in Soviet times, to rebuild its economy, says RT military analyst Eugene Khrushchev.

For more analysis on Afghanistan please check Eugene Khrushchev's blog.

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