Vienna, February 28 – Heroin originating in the poppy fields of Afghanistan still constitutes the greatest narcotics danger to public health in the Russian Federation, according to a Moscow commentator. But increasing misuse of prescription medicines imported from Asian countries is now adding to that overall “threat to the [country’s] national security.” In an article posted today on the website of the Strategic Culture Foundation, Aleksandr Barentsev says that the use of illegal drugs is now killing as many as 30,000 Russians a year, twice the officially reported “losses of the Armed Forces of the USSR over the entire ten years of the Afghan war!” (www.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1953). Most of the opiates originating in Afghanistan come into Russia from “the countries of the near abroad,” with “60 percent” of the total transiting Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan.” And while much of the flow is intended to go ...
Interfax reported on February 24 that Akhmed Torshkhoev, a senior aide to Ingushetia’s chief prosecutor, was shot and killed in Nazran. A source in the Investigative Committee of the federal Prosecutor General’s Office for Ingushetia told the news agency that the car in which Torshkhoev and his wife were traveling came under automatic weapons fire and that he died of gunshot wounds while his wife was seriously wounded. Interfax reported that on February 21, a sniper fired at policemen who were following up on reports that an explosive device had been discovered in Nazran’s Gamurzievo municipal district. One officer was shot and wounded in the leg.
Polish Police Arrest Suspect in Murder of Ex-Kadyrov Bodyguard
Austrian prosecutors announced on February 23 that Polish police had arrested a suspect believed to have taken part in last month’s killing in Vienna of a former bodyguard to Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, Umar Israilov. The Moscow Times on February ...
Publication time: Today at 11:51 Djokhar time Publication time: 25-FEB-2009 11:51 Djokhar time
The current crisis fraught with prolonged financial hardship and even civil war, The Globe and Mail, writes by referring to the economic historian Niall Ferguson. According to him the global crisis is far from over, it has only just begun.
"Projections for economic recovery next year, Ferguson called as "lying to boost public confidence". He believes the crisis will eventually provoke political conflict, albeit not on the scale of a world war, but violent all the same", the Canadian edition writes. The first swallow of future trends, Ferguson described the fact that on Monday Abu Dhabi at bargain-basement prices bought Nova Chemicals: "with financial power quickly being transferred over to the world's creditors - namely sovereign wealth funds - and away from the world's debtors".
And much of today's mess, he believes is the fault of central bankers who targeted consumer-price inflation but purposefully turned a ...
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