Tag Archive | "Afghan Drugs"
Active Endeavour and Drug Trafficking
We all are aware of the basic frameworks of the US response to barbaric 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Bush’s administration and NATO launched unprecedented media, diplomatic and military campaigns aimed to suppress the adversary inside its haunt in Afghanistan. But few remember that the US Operation Enduring Freedom and NATO’s International Security Assistance Force weren’t [...]
Continue reading...Another NATO Transit Center for Cargos or Drugs in Europe?
Saturday, March 17, 2012
The Russian Ministry of Defense plans to sign an agreement with the USA to establish a return “trans-shipment center” in Ulyanovsk (Russia) for goods going from Afghanistan has attracted public attention. A discussion on financial, political and military aspects of the issue has flared up. The issue of drug trafficking is tackled too. The flourishing [...]
Continue reading...Russia and the Changing World
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
ORIENTAL REVIEW republishes the latest article by Vladimir Putin, Russian PM and front-runner of the presidential campaign due to culminate next Sunday, March 4, 2012. The article focuses on different aspects of the Russian foreign policy. In my previous articles I have discussed some of the key foreign challenges that Russia now faces. This subject [...]
Continue reading...Russia and US Clash Over Afghan Drug Trafficking
Monday, February 27, 2012
This month Washington whose commitment to fighting drug production in the US occupied Afghanistan is widely called into question rolled out a new plan of coordinating the activities of Central Asian republic’s anti-narcotic agencies. The initiative was, however, promptly blocked as potentially counterproductive by Russia, the country hit hardest by the Afghan drug output. In [...]
Continue reading...Obama’s Byzantine Style in the ‘Greater Middle East’
Sunday, December 18, 2011
For the last few years the incumbent US administration was getting adhered to a new, more sophisticated principle in foreign policy: to act overseas by means of its allies and to promote American initiatives as multilateral through the international organizations. Thus, the war against Libya was unleashed by France, and the US was carrying out [...]
Continue reading...US Drug War Against Russia Waged From the Asian Foothold
Saturday, December 10, 2011
The US intelligence community launched its first drug attacks against Russia in the early 1990s, an epoch when drastic reforms were bleeding Russia’s law enforcement agencies and the borders of the formerly insulated country became easy to cross for envoys of Western drug cartels. The Russian customs and border-guard services which inherited from the Soviet [...]
Continue reading...US in Afghanistan: Leaving To Stay
Friday, July 8, 2011
One of the most high-profile events in the international politics in June was the announcement by the US president Barack Obama on the withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan. Meeting his election pledges, Obama initiated the conclusion of the military operation by the United States and their allies on Afghan territory that had lasted [...]
Continue reading...The West’s Plans to Partition Kyrgyzstan Are Nearing Completion
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Igor Kaminnik (Russia) The last days of summer 2010 in Kyrgyzstan saw two events that can confidently be called crucial. The first event occurred when the international community began massaging information. On August 23, the International Crisis Group published a report and recommendations on its official website concerning events that occurred in the southern part [...]
Continue reading...What Do the Wikileaked Documents Say?
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Nikita MENDKOVICH (Russia) The recent leak of thousands of secret documents from US intelligence in Afghanistan has aroused intense interest throughout world, both in the fact of the leak itself and in the content of the published information. After studying the matter, I would like pass on my understanding of the situation. First of all, [...]
Continue reading...Afghanistan: The Last Six Months
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Nikita MENDKOVICH (Russia) The International Conference on Afghanistan held on July 20 was to take stock of the first half of 2010. It addressed the successes and failures in bringing stability to the country, and also served as a platform for discussing solutions to current problems. The main theme of the last six months was [...]
Continue reading...The Opium Problem in Afghanistan and Russia at the End of the 20th Century
Monday, June 28, 2010
Nikita Mendkovich (Russia) Najibullah’s Kabul regime fell in 1992. Its defeat was a logical outcome of the termination of Russia’s material and technical support as US funding of the mujahedeen continued virtually unchanged even after Soviet forces withdrew. Unfortunately a new regime could not bring stability to the country: the commanders of the anti-Soviet troops [...]
Continue reading...The Afghan Drug Threat As It Is
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Alexander BARENTSEV (Russia) On 9-10 June Moscow hosted the forum ‘Afghan Drug Production-a Challenge to the International Community’. The event brought together participants from over 40 countries, including delegates from the UN, SCO, CSTO, NATO. Among the high-ranking participants there were Mr. Antonio Costa, Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); [...]
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