A Russian teen travelled halfway around the world so U.S. doctors could remove a brain stem tumour but the risky surgery left him brain dead, The Associated Press reports.
Popularity: 8% [?]
April 20, 2007Member of Kyrgyz parliament Azimbek Beknazarov suggested paying off the country’s foreign debt by planting opium.
Popularity: 9% [?]
March 7, 2007Russian prosecutors are investigating a local hospital on suspicions it illegally tested vaccines made by GlaxoSmithKline Plc on toddlers, the Reuters news agency reports.
Popularity: 8% [?]
March 4, 2007Vladimir Putin said Johnson & Johnson and Novartis AG are making too much money on the state’s $1.3 bln subsidized-medicine program.
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February 28, 2007The Russian police annually expose about 100,000 crimes connected with illegal drug trafficking. Chief of the office of the Department for Combating Organized Crimes and Terrorism of the Russian Interior Ministry Stanislav Orlov told journalists about it on Tuesday.
Popularity: 8% [?]
December 5, 2006
Police have seized 40 kilograms of heroin in the town of Lyubertsy near Moscow, an official of the Federal Drug Control Service said on Thursday.
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November 30, 2006Criminal groups are widely using the Internet to advertise and spread drugs, Lieut. Gen. Alexander Mikhailov, director of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service’s department for contacts with agencies and information, told Interfax Agency in Moscow on Thursday.
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November 16, 2006A 60-year-old resident of Krasnodar Region in South Russia was rushed to an intensive care ward of a local hospital with poisoning after she had eaten a hashish pie by mistake, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday.
Popularity: 9% [?]
November 9, 2006Russia’s top general called Thursday on his colleagues in a union of former Soviet states to unite against terrorism, cross-border crime and the drug mafia, RIA Novosti agensy reports.
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November 2, 2006Russia voiced its concern over the unabated rise in drug trafficking from Afghanistan at a meeting with EU officials Monday.
Huge volumes of illegal drugs arrive in Russia each year from Afghanistan, the world’s largest producer of heroin and opium, most of which is smuggled through Russia’s ex-Soviet neighbor Tajikistan.
Viktor Ivanov, speaking after a session of the Russia-European Union Permanent Partnership Council for justice and home affairs, said that in Afghanistan poppy farming areas now covered 120,000 hectares, and the annual harvest totaled almost 5,000 metric tons.
“We are very concerned over this issue. The issue was at the center of the talks,†Ivanov said.
Since the collapse of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in 2001, the international community has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on efforts to destroy poppy crops, close drug labs, pay subsidies to impoverished farmers and encourage them to cultivate alternate crops.
The presidential aide, quoted by RIA Novosti said the problem had social and economic roots, which have been exacerbated by weak government and inefficient law enforcement in Afghanistan.
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October 31, 2006
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