- 18:04 27/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 27 (RIA Novosti)
A Dutch court has upheld a law banning foreigners from entering "coffee shops" to buy marijuana and hashish, the BBC reported on Friday.
- 16:18 19/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti)
Russian and U.S. special services are currently carrying out a large-scale anti-drug raid in Afghanistan, Russia’s chief drug control official said on Thursday.
- 14:45 19/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow is concerned over the persisting threat of terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said during the Russia-NATO Council meeting on Thursday.
- 08:33 18/04/2012 MEXICO CITY, April 18 (RIA Novosti)
Police in the northern state of Mexico's Tamaulipas have discovered the bodies of 14 men placed in plastic bags and left in a small delivery truck in the center of Nuevo Laredo, the state's Prosecutor General's Office said on Wednesday.
- 14:00 05/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 5 (RIA Novosti)
NATO could be sued by numerous countries through international courts because of rising drug production and trafficking from Afghanistan in the course of NATO operations in the country, Federal Drug Control Service (FSDC) director Viktor Ivanov said on Thursday.
- 16:01 23/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 23 (RIA Novosti)
The heroin market in Russia is valued at $6 billion because of an influx of imports from Afghanistan’s booming drug production industry, head of the Federal Drug Control Service said on Friday.
- 13:52 21/03/2012 Maria Kuchma, RIA Novosti
The Kremlin's intention to allow NATO to set up a hub for Afghan transit operations in the Volga region city of Ulyanovsk has triggered protests amid claims the deal would undermine Russia's national interests and security.
- 15:50 19/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 19 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian anti-drug watchdog has prepared a bill introducing criminal punishment of up to two years in jail for drug users, the RAPSI news agency reported on Monday.
- 04:20 15/03/2012 BUENOS AIRES, March 15 (RIA Novosti)
Argentinean police have seized about 450 kilograms of cocaine worth $25 million in the port of Buenos Aires.
- 03:21 08/03/2012 WASHINGTON, March 8 (RIA Novosti)
Russia has been resorting to serious measures in the fight against drug trafficking, but needs to boost its efforts further, said a report from the U.S. Department of State.
- 20:54 02/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday signed into law a bill stipulating life sentences for selling drugs in especially large quantities, the president said on his website.
- 10:27 28/02/2012 MEXICO CITY, February 28 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. will make every effort to ensure that a Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman will face the fate of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said on Monday.
- 08:02 24/02/2012 MEXICO CITY, February 24 (RIA Novosti)
Russia and Nicaragua on Thursday signed an agreement on the fight against drug trafficking, the Nuevo Diario newspaper reported.
- 11:36 21/02/2012 MEXICO CITY, February 21 (RIA Novosti)
Mexican drug cartels do not have direct cocaine supplies to Russia, according to Mexico and Russia’s data, Russian Federal Drug Control Service head Viktor Ivanov said on Tuesday.
- 15:13 16/02/2012 VIENNA, February 16 (RIA Novosti)
Russia is calling on NATO for enhanced anti-drug efforts between it and the post-Soviet security alliance, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
- 22:05 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti)
Police in Russia’s Sverdlovsk Region in the Urals have detained a young man who had stolen 23 kg (50.7 pounds) of marijuana from a drug dealer, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
- 11:27 27/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 27 (RIA Novosti)
Annual financial damage to the world economy from drug money equals $2 trillion, Russia's Federal Drug Control Service head Viktor Ivanov said.
- 14:44 23/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 23 (RIA Novosti)
Russia and Iran are about to sign an agreement on tackling drug trafficking, extremism and cybercrimes, RIA Novosti reported on Monday.
- 17:52 18/01/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, January 18 (RIA Novosti)
One Belarusian and two Ukrainians have received 12-year prison sentences for growing marijuana and manufacturing other drugs in a bomb shelter in Russia’s second largest city St. Petersburg, the regional drug control directorate said on Wednesday.
- 11:21 16/01/2012 DUSHANBE, January 16 (RIA Novosti)
Police have seized some 44 kilograms of heroin that was due to be smuggled into Russia during a raid in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe, a drug control agency spokeswoman said on Monday.
- 09:10 12/01/2012 DUSHANBE, January 12 (RIA Novosti)
Tajikistan's drug control agency has confiscated more than 100 kilograms of illegal narcotics that were to be trafficked into Russia, a spokeswoman for the agency, Umeda Yusupova, said on Thursday.
- 13:33 10/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 10 (RIA Novosti)
Russian police seized hundreds of kilos of drugs over the New Year holidays, the Federal Drug Control Service said on Tuesday.
- 16:28 27/12/2011 NOVOSIBIRSK, December 27 (RIA Novosti)
Two drug couriers carrying heroin capsules in their stomachs have been detained at the airport of Russia’s Siberian city of Novosibirsk, the customs press service said on Tuesday.
- 12:27 20/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 20 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s drug controls chief, Viktor Ivanov, revealed new information on the extent of drug abuse in the country of some five million drug users.
- 14:49 01/12/2011 MINSK, December 1 (RIA Novosti)
Law enforcers from Belarus, Russia and Lithuania have apprehended an international criminal group trafficking drugs to Russia, a spokesman for the Belarusian Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
- 06:38 27/11/2011 BEIJING, November 27 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian woman has been sentenced to death in China for drug smuggling with the execution delayed for two years, the Russian Embassy in Beijing said.
- 11:13 26/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 26 (RIA Novosti)
The number of patients of addiction treatment clinics may grow 2-3 times after the law on compulsory drug abuse treatment is adopted in Russia, Russian Ministry of Health's chief alcohol and drug abuse specialist Yevgeny Bryun said on Saturday.
- 17:03 23/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 23 (RIA Novosti)
Russia may soon authorize the cultivation of hemp - otherwise known as cannabis sativa - for agricultural and industrial needs, Russia's Federal Drug Control Service said on Friday.
- 18:10 07/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticized NATO's refusal to join anti-drug efforts with the post-Soviet security alliance in Afghanistan on Wednesday.
- 13:20 01/09/2011
New types of drugs are becoming more and more popular in the world and in Russia. They are so accessible that they can trigger a “drug epidemic.”
- 09:44 29/06/2011 MOSCOW, June 29 (RIA Novosti)
Police in the Moscow region have detained a Tajik national who had more than 17 kilograms of heroin or the equivalent of 300,000 doses of the drug, a local police source said on Wednesday.
- 07:49 23/06/2011 MEXICO CITY, June 23 (RIA Novosti)
The United States will allocate nearly $300 million this year to help Central American countries fight drug trafficking, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.
- 07:15 16/06/2011 MOSCOW, June 16 (RIA Novosti)
The head of Russia's Federal Drug Control Service, Viktor Ivanov, will arrive on a visit to Iran on Thursday to discuss the fight against drug trafficking, the service reported.
- 22:03 09/06/2011
The Netherlands has extradited a Russian national accused of distributing LSD via the postal system, the press service of National Interpol Bureau in Russia said on Thursday.
- 20:38 02/06/2011
Governments should consider legalizing some drugs such as marijuana to curb global drug trafficking as steps taken so far have not prevented the spread of drug use, a group of international figures said in a report published on Thursday.
- 13:33 31/05/2011
A Russian foundation has launched a hotline in the Russian Internet domain (Runet) to fight the promotion of drug use, Friendly Runet director Yevgeny Bespalov said on Tuesday.
- 20:08 23/05/2011
Russia has banned drug addicts from working in a number of areas, including those which may pose a threat to life, the government said in a regulation released on Monday.
- 13:16 16/05/2011
Mandatory drug testing in schools may be introduced if the situation with drug abuse among schoolchildren does not improve, Russia's chief drug doctor, Yevgeny Brun, said on Monday.
- 17:12 28/04/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday instructed the government to submit proposals criminalizing drug abuse and instituting mandatory treatment for addicts, the Kremlin press service said.
- 10:41 25/04/2011
The United Nations plans to launch several programs aimed at fighting drug trafficking in Afghanistan and neighboring states by the end of 2011, the executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said on Monday.
- 23:15 20/04/2011
European police do not have any statistics that Russia is used as a transit country for drug trafficking, Russia's anti-narcotics chief, Viktor Ivanov, said on Wednesday.
- 23:43 19/04/2011 By Maria Kuchma
“I left home and spent five days on the streets before the police caught me,” says Lena, 15, tossing back her long black hair from her face.
- 15:24 18/04/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has given the government two months to consider the possibility of replacing jail terms for drug abusers with drug treatment.
- 10:38 18/04/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has condemned a lack of progress in the fight against drug abuse in the country.
- 15:17 23/03/2011
Russia's Health Ministry is drafting legislation that would see schoolchildren and students tested for drugs, the country's chief substance abuse expert said on Wednesday.
- 13:00 18/03/2011
The head of Russia's Federal Drug Control Service proposed on Friday expanding the UN anti-drug mission in Afghanistan.
- 14:10 04/03/2011
Russia needs to boost spending on drug addiction treatment as non-state organizations are unable to cope and often operate on the edge of the law, a member of the State Duma committee on health care said on Friday.
- 14:42 25/02/2011
Teenage schoolchildren in Moscow will be tested for drug use this spring on a voluntary basis despite the opposition of some parents, the city administration announced on Friday.
- 13:44 21/02/2011
Russia and the European Union are working hard to develop a plan to tackle the Afghan drug trade, Russia's anti-narcotics chief Viktor Ivanov said on Monday.
- 18:42 16/02/2011
Russia may introduce drug testing for students and schoolchildren in 2011, State Antidrug Committee deputy head Oleg Trifonov said on Wednesday.
- 10:22 29/01/2011
An Iranian-Dutch woman, detained after taking part in anti-government protests in 2009, has been hanged for drug smuggling by Iran, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Saturday.
- 10:11 28/01/2011
Most young people from Russia and Europe have used drugs at least once.
- 17:21 20/01/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai will on Friday discuss bilateral cooperation, including joint efforts to counter drug trafficking in the region, the Kremlin press service said on Thursday.
- 15:11 12/01/2011
At least 93 members of a major drug trafficking group have been arrested in Russia's southern Urals republic of Bashkortostan, the head of Russia's federal anti-drug service said on Wednesday.
- 17:48 07/01/2011
Tajik law enforcement officers have seized more than 100 kg of drugs in raids on Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan and in the capital, Dushanbe, the State National Security Committee announced.
- 21:58 06/01/2011
Cafe and club visitors in the towns of Enkhuizen and Medemblik in the north of the Netherlands will be confronted by sniffer dogs, dutchnews.nl reported on Thursday.
- 03:08 31/12/2010
Russian authorities confiscated a record 50 tons of illicit drugs, mostly heroin and marijuana, in 2010, said Viktor Ivanov, head of the Federal Drug Control Service.
- 10:38 24/12/2010
NATO has had at best zero effect on the drugs trade in Afghanistan since its troops entered the country, and the problem remains far from a priority for the Western military alliance, Russia's top anti-narcotics official says.
- 00:39 23/12/2010
Russia is planning to increase its donor contribution to the UN program on the fight against the Afghan drug threat.
- 17:06 27/11/2010
United Nations office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) vowed to help Afghan farmers to fend for their families without sowing poppy, its new executive director, Yuri Fedotov, said.
- 15:48 15/11/2010
Russia and the United States will continue their joint operations to destroy drug laboratories in Afghanistan, the head of Russia's drug-control agency said on Monday.
- 16:21 12/11/2010 RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik
The United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances entered into force on November 11, 1990. This international agreement sets out common standards of responsibility for the illegal drug trade and has become the basis for signatory nations' own anti-drug legislation.
- 19:20 06/11/2010
Two Ukrainian sailors sentenced to nine-year imprisonment in Venezuela for the shipment of 125 kilograms of cocaine will be extradited in the nearest future, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's press service said on Saturday.
- 22:13 03/11/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Afghan President Hamid Karzai discussed during a phone conversation increasing cooperation in fighting illicit drugs, the Kremlin said.
- 16:35 01/11/2010
Russia's state anti-narcotics committee (GAK) is developing new forms of treatment for drug addiction, following exposure of a number of cases where addicts were subjected to coercive treatment, the country's drug chief said on Monday.
- 10:57 30/10/2010
Russia and the U.S. will continue to cooperate in the fight against the Afghan drug threat, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday.
- 15:26 29/10/2010
A joint Russian-US anti-narcotics operation in Afghanistan destroyed four major drug laboratories. As a result, 932 kg of heroin and 156 kg of opium were destroyed, enough for 200 million single doses on the Central Asian drug market, said Viktor Ivanov, the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service.
- 15:00 29/10/2010
Eric Rubin, the deputy head of mission in the U.S. Embassy in Russia, said the United States would continue to cooperate with Russia and Afghanistan to stop the production of drugs in the Central Asian country and their trafficking.
- 14:59 29/10/2010
Russian and U.S. drug control services have carried out their first joint anti-narcotics operation in Afghanistan, destroying four major drug laboratories, the head of Russia's Federal Drug Control Service said on Friday.
- 12:59 29/10/2010
Moscow may send additional drug control officers to Afghanistan, the head of Russia's drug watchdog said on Friday.
- 12:45 29/10/2010
Moscow may send additional drug control officers to Afghanistan, the head of Russia's drug watchdog said on Friday.
- 12:26 29/10/2010
Drug addicts should be treated without the use of violence, the head of Russia's drug watchdog said on Friday.
- 11:55 29/10/2010
Russian and U.S. drug control services have carried out their first joint anti-narcotics operation in Afghanistan, destroying drugs supplies worth more than $250 million, the head of Russia's Federal Drug Control Service said on Friday.
- 11:01 29/10/2010
The number of drug laboratories in Afghanistan has increased by almost 2.5 times in the past two years, a Russian Drug Control Service official said on Friday.
- 09:00 29/10/2010
The number of illegal drug labs in Afghanistan has increased by 150% in the past two years, a representative of Russia's Federal Drug Control Service reported to RIA Novosti on Friday.
- 17:19 20/10/2010
A Russian-U.S. drug control working group will discuss on Thursday in Washington issues surrounding the global fight against drug trafficking, Russia's drug control agency said.
- 15:43 20/10/2010
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday called on farmers to stop growing poppies used in the production of opium.
- 11:00 08/10/2010
The United Nations office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) will put into practice in 2011 a new strategy to fight drugs in Afghanistan, its new executive director, Yuri Fedotov, said.
- 17:47 28/09/2010
Drugs have been one of the most serious threats facing Russia for some time now.
- 16:52 25/09/2010
Moscow is ready to consider different forms of cooperation with NATO, including cooperation under the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), so to tackle the Afghan drug threat, Russian Foreign Minister told Rossia 1 TV channel on Saturday.
- 11:51 01/09/2010
Russia expects significant progress from NATO in the fight against Afghan drug trafficking, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
- 11:44 19/07/2010
A Russian diplomat's appointment as the UN's top man in the fight against drugs and crime has been opposed by influential NGOs over Moscow's record on human rights, a paper said on Monday.
- 14:55 18/07/2010
NATO troops have seized 2 tons of heroin in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, the press office of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said on Sunday.
- 07:48 10/07/2010
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed the Russian ambassador to London to the post of executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
- 12:57 07/07/2010
Some 75 tons of drugs are annually smuggled from Afghanistan into Russia via Central Asian states, a deputy head of Russia's Federal Drug Control Service said on Wednesday.
- 08:00 07/07/2010
Costa Rica's police seized 1.09 metric tons of cocaine on the Latin American country's Pacific coast, the EFE news agency reported Wednesday.
- 15:38 30/06/2010
An anti-drugs art exhibition displaying wax figures of well-known drug addicts, opened in the lower house of the Russian parliament (State Duma) on Wednesday.
- 12:52 30/06/2010
World heroin consumption.
- 23:12 28/06/2010
As many as 500 Afghan drug laboratories may be involved in the production of drugs being trafficked to Russia, the head of Russia's Federal Drug Control Service said on Monday.
- 22:23 28/06/2010
There is no such thing as good news when it comes to drugs. Even a drop in the production of heroin, for example, simply means an increase in the production of synthetic drugs elsewhere.
- 16:11 28/06/2010
Russia, the Central Asian states and Iran should work jointly within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to boost the fight against Afghan drugs, Richard Weitz, senior editor of World Politics Review and senior fellow and director of the Hudson Institute Center for Political-Military Analysis.
- 13:26 26/06/2010
Russia's drug control chief Viktor Ivanov opened on Saturday the Far Eastern Drug Observatory to monitor drug trafficking in North East Asia.
- 05:38 26/06/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed G8 leaders to adopt a global plan on anti-drug trafficking efforts.
- 21:45 24/06/2010
The creation of a Russian military base near the Kyrgyz city of Osh would contribute to the struggle against Afghan drug trafficking, the head of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service said on Thursday.
- 17:05 24/06/2010
Delegates at an international forum Drug production in Afghanistan: A challenge to the International Community held in Moscow are satisfied with its results and say that strengthening international cooperation is vital to counter the threat posed by heroin production in the war-ravaged state, the forum's final statement issued on Thursday said.
- 17:04 24/06/2010
RIA Novosti hosted an international anti-drugs forum from June 9-10. Below is the forum participants’ final statement given by Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service during a Moscow-Washington video linkup on Thursday.
- 15:43 24/06/2010
Customs officers at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport locate drug caches inside shoes, preserves, fruit and even human stomachs.
Sergei Boyev, deputy chief of the Domodedovo customs office for law-enforcement operations, says traffickers who transport drugs by swallowing them are being caught more frequently than other kinds of traffickers.
- 13:11 21/06/2010
Drug police have seized 320 kilograms (705 lbs) of Afghan hashish worth some 96 million rubles ($3.1 million) in Russia's second largest city of St. Petersburg, Russia's drug control chief said on Monday.
- 12:40 21/06/2010
Russia's drug chief proposed on Monday the building of a military base in Kyrgyzstan as part of global efforts to combat Afghan drug trafficking.
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