Afghan heroin flow to Russia has grown – drug control service head
(Interfax – MOSCOW, July 11, 2013) The director of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN), Viktor Ivanov, has confirmed an upsurge in smuggling Afghan heroin to Russia. “We see a larger flow...
View ArticleNATO Pullout From Afghanistan ‘Too Hasty’– Russian Defense Official
(RIA Novosti – MOSCOW, August 14, 2013) The intended pullout of the NATO-led forces from Afghanistan starting in 2014 is “too hasty,” Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister said Wednesday adding that...
View ArticleNATO Avoids ‘Costly’ Russian Transit Hub – Paper
(RIA Novosti – MOSCOW, August 15, 2013) A year after Russia opened a transit hub in Ulyanovsk to help in NATO’s pullout from Afghanistan, not a single alliance member has used it, a Russian newspaper...
View ArticleRussia Beyond the Headlines: Afghanistan faces chaos
(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Andrei Ilyashenko, political analyst for Voice of Russia Radio, special to RBTH – November 5, 2013) With international forces leaving and an upcoming election...
View ArticleRIA Novosti: Russia Concerned at US Plans for Bases in Afghanistan
MOSCOW, November 20 (RIA Novosti) A senior Russian diplomat has voiced concerns over US plans to retain nine military bases in Afghanistan after their planned withdrawal from the country. Russia’s...
View ArticleInterfax: NATO demonstrates touching care for “Afghan peasants” growing drug...
MINSK. Nov 28 (Interfax) – Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) Director Viktor Ivanov says that NATO has failed to contribute to the fight against Afghan illegal drug business. “We can say that the...
View ArticleInterfax: Afghanistan will pose drug threat for another century -FSKN director
MINSK/MOSCOW. Nov 29 (Interfax) – Russian Federal Drug Control Service Director Viktor Ivanov said Afghanistan may stay a source of large-scale drug trafficking for years ahead. “If no serious efforts...
View ArticleNATO refuses to cooperate with CSTO in fighting Afghan drugs for ideological...
(Interfax – December 18, 2013) Moscow stands for NATO-CSTO cooperation in Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said during the Government Hour at the Federation Council on Wednesday. “We...
View ArticleDivided by Borders, Afghan War Veterans Face Differing Challenges
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – D. Garrison Golubock – February 14, 2014) On Feb. 15, 1989, the last Soviet military formations departed from Afghanistan, leaving behind a country they had...
View ArticleTurkmenistan: The Achilles Heel Of Central Asian Security
(RFE/RL – rferl.org – February 16, 2014) Central Asian governments are already on heightened alert over the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan. This sense of alarm is almost certain to...
View ArticleLeaving Afghanistan
(opendemocracy.net – Artemy M. Kalinovsky – February 15, 2014) Artemy M. Kalinovsky is Assistant Professor of East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam and the author of A Long Goodbye: The...
View ArticleInterfax: NATO’s decision to suspend cooperation will harm Afghanistan –...
(Interfax – April 2, 2014) NATO’s decision to suspend cooperation with Russia will harm Afghanistan, Moscow’s envoy to NATO has said. Interfax news agency quoted Aleksandr Grushko saying: “Above all,...
View ArticleInterfax: Russia free to suspend NATO transit to Afghanistan across its...
(Interfax – April 4, 2014) NATO’s decision to suspend cooperation with Russia gives Moscow the right to suspend NATO transit to Afghanistan across Russian territory, Federation Council Defense and...
View ArticleInterfax: Afghan heroin has “killed” at least 500,000 Russians since 2000 –...
MOSCOW. May 15 (Interfax) – The director of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service, Viktor Ivanov, has said there have been at least 500,000 deaths in Russia caused by the use of Afghan heroin since...
View ArticlePutin Evokes Tolstoy 26 Years After Soviet Troops Pulled Out of Afghanistan
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – February 16, 2015) President Vladimir Putin marked the 26th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s withdrawal from Afghanistan Sunday, vindicating his country’s...
View ArticleNATO transit through Russia still possible – envoy
(Interfax – Brussels, May 20, 2015) After the International Security Assistance Force completes its operation in Afghanistan, for which a simplified procedure of transit of freight was used, the...
View ArticleNEWSLINK Christian Science Monitor: “Russia in Syria: Ghosts of Afghanistan...
Memories of the Soviet Army’s failure in Afghanistan still haunt the Russian public – making a major deployment to Syria almost unthinkable, Russian experts say.
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