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Alexander Yakovenko
Ambassador’s Notebook: The Growing Threat From Afghanistan
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Afghanistan and Afghanistan’s Ministry of Counter Narcotics presented a report on opium production in the country in 2013.
Alexander Yakovenko
Ambassador's Notebook: Russia’s View on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
The preparatory committee for the 2015 NPT review conference took place in Geneva on April 22-May 3.
Alexey Eremenko
Afghanistan Journal: KFC
There was a KFC outside our guest house in Kabul. It had a picture of Colonel Sanders. But it was really “Kabul Fried Checkin,” if the sign above the door was to be believed.
Alexey Eremenko
Afghanistan Journal: Busted in Kabul
So my colleague David got busted by Afghanistan’s secret police in Kabul. He spent a day at their office along with two other reporters, and said the food was better than at our hotel.
Alexey Eremenko
Afghanistan Journal: The Afghan Che Guevara (The Man Who Lost Kabul)
He has an aquiline nose, a close-trimmed beard and a mop of black hair half-hidden under a woolen pakol, or Afghan hat. There is a resemblance to Bob Marley, except for the stern stare, which is more reminiscent of Che Guevara.
Alexey Eremenko
Afghanistan Journal: Truth in the Rain
It rained in Kabul over the weekend. The sky was overcast above the perpetually empty rooftop bar across from our hotel, and the fancy caged birds in our garden shook their heads, though the buzz of construction drilling kept going in the semi-skyscraper towering above the district of Shar-e Naw.
Alexey Eremenko
Afghanistan Journal: Russian Drug Police
The guard dog of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) branch in Kabul is named “Doza” (“dose”). And that's all I'm allowed to say about Russian drug police in Afghanistan.
Alexey Eremenko
Afghanistan Journal: No Pig Fat in Public
Soviet vets open up and share nuggets of wisdom about life and war in Afghanistan, from culinary tips to fighting techniques.
Alexey Eremenko
Afghanistan Journal: Fighting the Soviets, Take 2
The Soviet veterans defeated the Afghan side 1-0 in a football game in Kabul on Thursday. I was deeply embarrassed.
Alexey Eremenko
Afghanistan Journal: Purple Hearts on Chicken Street
There is a lot of weird souvenir junk on Chicken Street in downtown Kabul.

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Blogs

Ambassador’s Notebook: The Growing Threat From Afghanistan

Ambassador's Notebook: Russia’s View on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Afghanistan Journal: KFC

Afghanistan Journal: Busted in Kabul

Afghanistan Journal: The Afghan Che Guevara (The Man Who Lost Kabul)

Afghanistan Journal: Truth in the Rain

Afghanistan Journal: Russian Drug Police

Afghanistan Journal: No Pig Fat in Public

Afghanistan Journal: Fighting the Soviets, Take 2

Afghanistan Journal: Purple Hearts on Chicken Street

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