A former Russian inmate at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has requested political asylum in the Netherlands, citing his lawyer and the organization Human Rights Watch, the RIA Novosti news agency reported April 4.
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April 5, 2007Seven Russian terrorism suspects once held at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, suffered torture and other abuse after being returned home in 2004, reads a new report by Human Rights Watch quoted by AFP.
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March 29, 2007Russia is willing to discuss the resumption of military aid to Afghanistan during the upcoming visit of the country’s defense minister to Moscow, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Monday.
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March 5, 2007Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took part in an official opening ceremony of a Russian embassy in Kabul, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
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February 23, 2007Police on Sunday killed an Arab who Russian security officials said commanded foreign mercenaries in Chechnya and was al-Qaeda’s top emissary in the troubled North Caucasus.
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November 27, 2006The CIS Afghan war veterans committee said 272 servicemen of the former Soviet army are still listed as missing during the Afghan war.
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November 9, 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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