Tackling the Illicit Drug Trade: Perspectives From Russia

... Faced with increasing drug-related mortality, complementing law enforcement and regional initiatives with a softer approach at home is the next logical step. A Threat to National and Human Security: Developments and Continuities in the Afghan Drug Trade Drug trafficking in Russia is far from being a recent problem. The drastic rise of organised crime in the tumultuous years that followed the fall of the USSR, as well as the newly opened and poorly controlled borders with former Soviet states, has facilitated ...