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Discussion of Prospects for Building Trust between Russia and the US at RIAC

... missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The discussion covered the issues of building trust between Russia and the United States as the countries with the greatest potential to successfully confront international challenges, namely the growth of drug trafficking (especially heroin black trading), the spread of weapons of mass destruction, of chemical and biological weapons, and their falling into the hands of terrorist groups. The participants of the meeting emphasized the need to establish a ...

19.02.2016

Russia Increasing Role in International Drug Prohibition

... inevitably has a significant destabilising effect on the region. Drug trafficking therefore poses a direct security threat to Russian borders in a way in which it does not to the West, and prohibition, which can be worse for addicts, has undeniably minimised drug trafficking. Opium production in 1906/7, for example, reached an estimated forty one thousand metric tonnes -- almost five times more than a century later -- at a time when the world population remained below two billion.[8] Iran, through which the largest amount of Afghan heroin is trafficked, adopts a similar stance to the Russian Federation....

22.08.2014

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In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?

U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements	33 (31%)
U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity	30 (28%)
U.S. wants to dissolve Russia	24 (22%)
U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)