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26.10.2008, 13:03
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
24.09.2008, 11:21
Since NATO forces invaded Afghanistan, the production of heroin in the country increased by 2.5 times and Afghanistan has become the world leader in heroin production. Eighteen tonnes of heroin from Afghanistan ends up in Russia each year.
11.09.2008, 14:15
Cultivating and refining opium is illegal in Afghanistan, yet it is currently the world's largest supplier of opium, producing 93 % of the global opiate market. Decades of civil wars in Afghanistan has diverted attention from social problems such as opium
19.02.2009, 14:19
The parliament in Kyrgyzstan has voted for the closure of the US air base at Manas.
16.06.2009, 11:16
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The crisis, terrorism, and cooperation – that’s the focus of this year’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization's annual summit. The leaders of the member countries are meeting in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
18.08.2010, 18:04
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Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan could come back to developing Soviet-era economic projects, President Dmitry Medvedev has said at the four-country summit in Sochi.
05.04.2010, 18:05
Russia’s Federal Security Service expressed its gratitude to the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation which stated that they are ready to help in the fight against terrorism in Russia.
29.10.2009, 01:16
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Ahmed Wali Karzai, the governor of Afghanistan’s Kandahar province and the brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai, has been paid by the CIA for the past eight years, The New York Times reported this week.
28.03.2010, 08:15
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NATO and Russia have failed to reach a consensus in a tug of war over tackling the Afghan drug problem. The alliance has rejected Moscow’s appeal to eradicate opium poppy fields in the Islamic Republic.
28.12.2009, 14:14
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Russian and Japanese stances on the Kuril Islands issue still differ, but the states wish to resolve the matter eventually, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after a meeting with his Japanese counterpart.
Published: 16 March, 2009, 13:18
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in Afghanistan for one-day consultations setting the stage for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) special conference on Afghanistan, scheduled to be held on March 27 in Moscow.
Americans have many big problems in Afghanistan, and one of them is the political instability of Hamid Karzai's government. Surely, he has been cooperative with Americans, and according to the news, he sees Russians as allies. However, Afghanistan solution is going to require more than just cooperation with Afghan regime. The rising instability and violence in Afghanistan shows that the problems have only just begun.