- 23:53 24/04/2013
A former head of a Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) Moscow department has been detained on suspicion of involvement in the drug trade, the Investigative Committee said on Wednesday.
- 18:27 12/04/2013
A woman transporting a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of heroin amid various Easter goods in her car has been detained in Central Russia’s Voronezh Region, the regional anti-drug authorities said on Friday.
- 20:09 05/04/2013
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- 16:13 26/03/2013
Russia’s drug control service head said Tuesday that Moscow will contribute to a new South American anti-drugs program, and proposed the launch of counter-narcotics training courses for agents in Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador.
- 22:12 25/03/2013
Customs officers in Belarus said on Monday that they intercepted a major haul of heroin heading into neighboring Lithuania over the weekend.
- 14:00 22/03/2013
Kyrgyz police detained a drug runner from neighboring Tajikistan with a large consignment of Afghan opium, Kyrgyzstan’s Interior Ministry said on Friday.
- 13:25 12/03/2013
Russia and Nicaragua cooperated earlier this month in breaking up a Central American drug gang, seizing around 1.2 tons of cocaine in a joint operation, Russia’s drug control service chief said on Tuesday.
- 11:33 12/03/2013
Almost 21 tons of heroin have been seized in an operation in eastern Afghanistan , the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) said on Tuesday.
- 10:33 12/03/2013
A court in Russia’s Siberian republic of Buryatia sentenced a man to six years in jail for attempting to sell half a kilo of heroin, regional prosecutors reported on Tuesday.
- 05:28 12/03/2013
The head of Russia’s drug enforcement agency has lamented that Afghan heroin deliveries to Russia are still high.
- 20:02 11/03/2013
Russia and Nicaragua have carried out a joint operation to wipe out a drug cartel, Russian Federal Drug Control Service chief Viktor Ivanov said on Monday.
- 13:26 25/02/2013
Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) officers seized 187 kilograms (412 lbs) of heroin with an estimated wholesale black market value of $180 million in the Moscow region, FSKN head Viktor Ivanov said on Monday.
- 06:30 22/02/2013
South Africa’s authorities have extradited Russian drug lord Alexander Bely to Russia, the Interior Ministry reported Thursday.
- 14:17 18/02/2013
Police seized more than 90 kilograms (198 lbs) of marijuana from a man in south Russia’s Rostov region, the Federal Drug Control Service said on Monday.
- 17:51 30/01/2013
Russian police detained a Colombian clergyman for attempting to smuggle cocaine through a Moscow airport, the Federal Drug Control Service reported on Wednesday.
- 19:48 28/01/2013
Three citizens of Azerbaijan and one Iranian have been convicted of drug trafficking in Moscow, the Prosecutor General’s Office said on Monday.
- 19:24 25/01/2013
The US military has barred Afghanistan’s biggest private airline from its list of potential contractors after accusing it of smuggling large amounts of opium into Tajikistan, a major transit route for drugs from the region, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
- 16:18 24/01/2013
A female Siberian pensioner, 77, was convicted of drug dealing and given a suspended sentence, the Interior Ministry’s Siberia branch said on Thursday.
- 09:31 20/01/2013
Afghanistan blasted Russia for what it said was inadequate assistance in Afghanistan’s fight against drugs production.
- 11:20 18/01/2013
Narcotics police have recently seized more than 90 kilograms of Afghan heroin in the Moscow Region, Russian drug czar Viktor Ivanov said Friday.
- 17:18 16/01/2013
Russian law enforcers seized almost 60 kilograms (over 130 lbs) of Afghan heroin from three Tajikistan nationals in a special operation, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday.
- 17:51 14/01/2013
Tajik law-enforcers seized some six metric tons of drugs in the country in 2012, up 41.1 percent since 2011, a spokeswoman for the country’s drug control agency said on Monday.
- 01:11 13/01/2013
Venezuelan law-enforcers have seized a light plane transporting 530 kg of cocaine on Saturday, local media reported.
- 05:48 04/01/2013
A large batch of drugs containing some 122 kilograms has been seized by Tajikistan’s special services in an operation conducted in the Central Asian country’s northern Sughd Province, the State Committee for National Security said.
- 11:30 03/01/2013
A Tajik border guard officer was detained in north Tajikistan with almost 23 kilos of hashish, Interior Ministry spokesman Makhmadullo Asadulloyev said on Thursday.
- 20:54 27/12/2012
Almost 9 million Russians regularly take illicit drugs, Federal Drug Control Service head Viktor Ivanov said on Thursday.
- 17:28 27/12/2012
Agents of Azerbaijan’s National Security Ministry have seized 19.3 kilograms of opium resin smuggled in from Iran, the ministry press service said on Thursday.
- 14:39 27/12/2012
The fugitive head of a major heroin smuggling ring has been arrested in the United Arab Emirates, Russia’s anti-drug agency reported on Thursday.
- 20:01 24/12/2012
Showing a more exotic way to ruin your career through drugs, a policeman in central Ukraine was charged with stealing 15 kilograms of cannabis confiscated from a drug dealer.
- 23:19 21/12/2012
More than 470 kg of various types of drugs and 766 kg of precursor chemicals were seized in an anti-drug operation conducted by Russia and three other ex-Soviet states, Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service said on Friday.
- 10:52 21/12/2012
Anti-narcotics officials and customs officers in Russia’s Far East have seized Chinese drugs hidden in statues of birds.
- 10:36 13/12/2012
Tajik special services seized some 500 lbs (226 kilograms) of drugs in a three-day operation against traffickers from Afghanistan this week.
- 16:48 10/12/2012
More than 300 Afghan drug enforcement officers have been trained in Russia over the past five years, Federal Drug Control Service head Viktor Ivanov said on Monday.
- 16:29 07/12/2012
Tajik and Afghan drug police have shut down a large international drug trafficking channel, seizing 420 kilograms (920 pounds) of narcotics and detaining 13 traffickers, the Tajik Drug Control Agency said on Friday.
- 14:12 27/11/2012
Russia's anti-drug chief criticized NATO on Tuesday for failing to combat drug-trafficking from Afghanistan.
- 15:46 26/11/2012
Funds seized from drug traffickers should be spent on treatment and rehabilitation programs, director of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Ivanov said on Monday.
- 09:14 05/11/2012
Venezuela’s National Guard seized on Sunday half a ton of Columbian cocaine, Mexican media reported.
- 07:51 02/11/2012
Drug traffickers of Brazil’s largest city of Sao Paulo have dug a tunnel to deliver cocaine to the campus of the city’s flagship university, the Univision TV channel reported on Friday.
- 01:31 02/11/2012
In an unusual fencing operation, suspected drug smugglers attempting to drive their truck over a tall barricade along US-Mexico border were forced to abandon the vehicle when it got stuck atop the wall and the suspects were literally caught in the act, officials said.
- 18:20 01/11/2012
A court in Russia’s Tatarstan sentenced six members of a heroin trafficking ring to long jail terms on Thursday.
- 09:11 01/11/2012 KRASNOYARSK, November 1 (RIA Novosti)
Members of Russia’s security service have detained a man carrying drugs worth about 10 million rubles (over $300,000) near Krasnoyarsk, the service’s local press office said on Thursday.
- 14:02 25/10/2012 NOVOSIBIRSK, October 25 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service plans to include nitrous oxide (laughing gas) on the drugs list by the end of the year, placing strict controls on who can buy and sell the substance, Deputy Director of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service Nikolai Tsvetkov said on Thursday.
- 13:39 18/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 18 (RIA Novosti)
Russian counter-narcotics police will soon receive the first batch of reconnaissance unmanned air vehicles (UAV) to track drug-trafficking in remote and hard-to-access areas, Russia’s anti-drug chief Viktor Ivanov said Thursday.
- 11:41 18/10/2012 PERM, October 18 (RIA Novosti)
Russian police have smashed a gang supplying synthetic narcotics to Russia from China and seized 80 kilograms of drugs, the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) in the city of Perm reported on Thursday.
- 21:18 13/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 13 (RIA Novosti)
More than 1,000 people signed up for an anti-drug rally complete with a hearse parade to be held in the city of Novosibirsk on Sunday, local media reported.
- 20:34 12/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 12 (RIA Novosti)
Police confiscated more than eight metric tons of cocaine in Antwerp port hidden in a shipment of bananas from Ecuador, Dutch News online portal reported on Friday.
- 11:22 11/10/2012 TOMSK, October 11 (RIA Novosti)
The police have detained two youths for collecting nearly 30 lbs (13 kg) of cannabis in a nature reserve in west Siberia's Tomsk region, the regional Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
- 04:04 28/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 28 (RIA Novosti)
The heads of the drug enforcement agencies of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Tajikistan will meet on Friday in the Tajik capital Dushanbe to discuss anti-drug efforts in Central Asia, Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service reported.
- 10:52 27/09/2012 MEXICO CITY, September 27 (RIA Novosti)
Mexican law enforcement has arrested drug kingpin Ivan Velazquez Caballero, dealing a serious blow to the nation’s biggest drug cartel, Los Zetas, the government said.
- 14:02 18/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 18 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's drug control agency has proposed banning sales of nitrous oxide - also known as laughing gas - saying the substance is a "challenge" to the country.
- 13:07 13/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russian, U.S. and Afghan law enforcement agents seized 180 kilograms of heroin in a joint operation in northeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, Russian narcotics agency FSKN said in a statement on Thursday.
- 08:48 27/08/2012 NOVOSIBIRSK, August 27 (RIA Novosti)
A Novosibirsk court in Siberia has sentenced a foreign national to six years in a high security prison for trafficking some 30 pounds (14.5 kilograms) of uncut heroin in Russia, the regional Federal Security Service said on Monday.
- 07:11 25/08/2012 BALI (Indonesia), August 25 (RIA Novosti)
Eight Iranian men and a woman from Uzbekistan are facing a death penalty in Malaysia after a court of Kuala Lumpur charged them with drug trafficking, Bernama national news agency reported.
- 19:23 04/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 4 (RIA Novosti)
Roughly two tons of cocaine have been seized by the Colombian and the U.S. Coast Guard from the United States-bound ship in the Pacific Ocean, Chilean La Segunda daily reported on Friday.
- 12:15 30/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 30 (RIA Novosti)
Growing online trade has encouraged drug traffickers to increasingly use mail services to deliver cocaine to their customers, a top Russian police official in charge of fighting drug trafficking said.
- 11:33 24/07/2012 TOMSK, July 24 (RIA Novosti)
Drug police in the Siberian city of Tomsk have discovered a new drug made of a substance used to repair tires, which they say may affect human brain more severely than heroin.
- 09:50 29/06/2012
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- 17:40 05/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 5 (RIA Novosti)
Vitaly Orozaliyev, the head of Kyrgyzstan’s state drug control service, on Tuesday proposed inspecting the cargoes that transit the U.S. Transit Center at Manas Airport near the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, the 24.kg news agency reported.
- 18:10 24/05/2012
Operatives from Ukraine’s Security Service destroyed over a thousand kilograms of cocaine confiscated from an international crime ring. This is the largest volume of drugs ever confiscated in Ukraine.
- 17:28 30/04/2012 BALI (INDONESIA), April 30 (RIA Novosti)
Two Russian nationals, arrested in Bali on drug smuggling charges, may face death penalty if convicted, the Jakarta Globe reported on Monday.
- 18:04 27/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 27 (RIA Novosti)
A Dutch court has upheld a law banning foreigners from entering "coffee shops" to buy marijuana and hashish, the BBC reported on Friday.
- 16:18 19/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti)
Russian and U.S. special services are currently carrying out a large-scale anti-drug raid in Afghanistan, Russia’s chief drug control official said on Thursday.
- 14:45 19/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow is concerned over the persisting threat of terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said during the Russia-NATO Council meeting on Thursday.
- 08:33 18/04/2012 MEXICO CITY, April 18 (RIA Novosti)
Police in the northern state of Mexico's Tamaulipas have discovered the bodies of 14 men placed in plastic bags and left in a small delivery truck in the center of Nuevo Laredo, the state's Prosecutor General's Office said on Wednesday.
- 14:00 05/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 5 (RIA Novosti)
NATO could be sued by numerous countries through international courts because of rising drug production and trafficking from Afghanistan in the course of NATO operations in the country, Federal Drug Control Service (FSDC) director Viktor Ivanov said on Thursday.
- 16:01 23/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 23 (RIA Novosti)
The heroin market in Russia is valued at $6 billion because of an influx of imports from Afghanistan’s booming drug production industry, head of the Federal Drug Control Service said on Friday.
- 13:52 21/03/2012 Maria Kuchma, RIA Novosti
The Kremlin's intention to allow NATO to set up a hub for Afghan transit operations in the Volga region city of Ulyanovsk has triggered protests amid claims the deal would undermine Russia's national interests and security.
- 15:50 19/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 19 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian anti-drug watchdog has prepared a bill introducing criminal punishment of up to two years in jail for drug users, the RAPSI news agency reported on Monday.
- 04:20 15/03/2012 BUENOS AIRES, March 15 (RIA Novosti)
Argentinean police have seized about 450 kilograms of cocaine worth $25 million in the port of Buenos Aires.
- 03:21 08/03/2012 WASHINGTON, March 8 (RIA Novosti)
Russia has been resorting to serious measures in the fight against drug trafficking, but needs to boost its efforts further, said a report from the U.S. Department of State.
- 20:54 02/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday signed into law a bill stipulating life sentences for selling drugs in especially large quantities, the president said on his website.
- 10:27 28/02/2012 MEXICO CITY, February 28 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. will make every effort to ensure that a Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman will face the fate of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said on Monday.
- 08:02 24/02/2012 MEXICO CITY, February 24 (RIA Novosti)
Russia and Nicaragua on Thursday signed an agreement on the fight against drug trafficking, the Nuevo Diario newspaper reported.
- 11:36 21/02/2012 MEXICO CITY, February 21 (RIA Novosti)
Mexican drug cartels do not have direct cocaine supplies to Russia, according to Mexico and Russia’s data, Russian Federal Drug Control Service head Viktor Ivanov said on Tuesday.
- 15:13 16/02/2012 VIENNA, February 16 (RIA Novosti)
Russia is calling on NATO for enhanced anti-drug efforts between it and the post-Soviet security alliance, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
- 22:05 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti)
Police in Russia’s Sverdlovsk Region in the Urals have detained a young man who had stolen 23 kg (50.7 pounds) of marijuana from a drug dealer, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
- 11:27 27/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 27 (RIA Novosti)
Annual financial damage to the world economy from drug money equals $2 trillion, Russia's Federal Drug Control Service head Viktor Ivanov said.
- 14:44 23/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 23 (RIA Novosti)
Russia and Iran are about to sign an agreement on tackling drug trafficking, extremism and cybercrimes, RIA Novosti reported on Monday.
- 17:52 18/01/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, January 18 (RIA Novosti)
One Belarusian and two Ukrainians have received 12-year prison sentences for growing marijuana and manufacturing other drugs in a bomb shelter in Russia’s second largest city St. Petersburg, the regional drug control directorate said on Wednesday.
- 11:21 16/01/2012 DUSHANBE, January 16 (RIA Novosti)
Police have seized some 44 kilograms of heroin that was due to be smuggled into Russia during a raid in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe, a drug control agency spokeswoman said on Monday.
- 09:10 12/01/2012 DUSHANBE, January 12 (RIA Novosti)
Tajikistan's drug control agency has confiscated more than 100 kilograms of illegal narcotics that were to be trafficked into Russia, a spokeswoman for the agency, Umeda Yusupova, said on Thursday.
- 13:33 10/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 10 (RIA Novosti)
Russian police seized hundreds of kilos of drugs over the New Year holidays, the Federal Drug Control Service said on Tuesday.
- 16:28 27/12/2011 NOVOSIBIRSK, December 27 (RIA Novosti)
Two drug couriers carrying heroin capsules in their stomachs have been detained at the airport of Russia’s Siberian city of Novosibirsk, the customs press service said on Tuesday.
- 12:27 20/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 20 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s drug controls chief, Viktor Ivanov, revealed new information on the extent of drug abuse in the country of some five million drug users.
- 14:49 01/12/2011 MINSK, December 1 (RIA Novosti)
Law enforcers from Belarus, Russia and Lithuania have apprehended an international criminal group trafficking drugs to Russia, a spokesman for the Belarusian Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
- 06:38 27/11/2011 BEIJING, November 27 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian woman has been sentenced to death in China for drug smuggling with the execution delayed for two years, the Russian Embassy in Beijing said.
- 11:13 26/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 26 (RIA Novosti)
The number of patients of addiction treatment clinics may grow 2-3 times after the law on compulsory drug abuse treatment is adopted in Russia, Russian Ministry of Health's chief alcohol and drug abuse specialist Yevgeny Bryun said on Saturday.
- 17:03 23/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 23 (RIA Novosti)
Russia may soon authorize the cultivation of hemp - otherwise known as cannabis sativa - for agricultural and industrial needs, Russia's Federal Drug Control Service said on Friday.
- 18:10 07/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticized NATO's refusal to join anti-drug efforts with the post-Soviet security alliance in Afghanistan on Wednesday.
- 13:20 01/09/2011
New types of drugs are becoming more and more popular in the world and in Russia. They are so accessible that they can trigger a “drug epidemic.”
- 09:44 29/06/2011 MOSCOW, June 29 (RIA Novosti)
Police in the Moscow region have detained a Tajik national who had more than 17 kilograms of heroin or the equivalent of 300,000 doses of the drug, a local police source said on Wednesday.
- 07:49 23/06/2011 MEXICO CITY, June 23 (RIA Novosti)
The United States will allocate nearly $300 million this year to help Central American countries fight drug trafficking, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.
- 07:15 16/06/2011 MOSCOW, June 16 (RIA Novosti)
The head of Russia's Federal Drug Control Service, Viktor Ivanov, will arrive on a visit to Iran on Thursday to discuss the fight against drug trafficking, the service reported.
- 22:03 09/06/2011
The Netherlands has extradited a Russian national accused of distributing LSD via the postal system, the press service of National Interpol Bureau in Russia said on Thursday.
- 20:38 02/06/2011
Governments should consider legalizing some drugs such as marijuana to curb global drug trafficking as steps taken so far have not prevented the spread of drug use, a group of international figures said in a report published on Thursday.
- 13:33 31/05/2011
A Russian foundation has launched a hotline in the Russian Internet domain (Runet) to fight the promotion of drug use, Friendly Runet director Yevgeny Bespalov said on Tuesday.
- 20:08 23/05/2011
Russia has banned drug addicts from working in a number of areas, including those which may pose a threat to life, the government said in a regulation released on Monday.
- 13:16 16/05/2011
Mandatory drug testing in schools may be introduced if the situation with drug abuse among schoolchildren does not improve, Russia's chief drug doctor, Yevgeny Brun, said on Monday.
- 17:12 28/04/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday instructed the government to submit proposals criminalizing drug abuse and instituting mandatory treatment for addicts, the Kremlin press service said.
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