Posted by
whoyg10469 on Monday, November 16, 2009 1:40:57 AM
In early October, Viktor Ivanov, head of the Federal Narcotics Control
Service (Federalnaya sluzhba narkokontrolya Rossii: FSNK), accused the
pearl jewelry United States's counter-narcotic policy in Afghanistan of being "insufficient".
This represented an escalation of rhetoric from March, when Ivanov
warned of an ongoing flow of Afghan narcotics through Russia, despite a
70 per cent rise in seizure rates. In a report he circulated at the
time, he warned: "In recent years Russia has not just become massively
hooked on Afghan opiates, it has also become the world's absolute
leader in the
biwa pearl opiate trade and the number one heroin consumer."
According to the Russian health ministry, the country has up to 2.5
million drug addicts out of a population of some 140 million, most aged
between 18 and 39. However, other estimates place the
akoya pearl
figure higher and even Ivanov acknowledged in March that there are more
than 5.1 million drug users in Russia, almost double the figures from
2002.