Citation

Renz B. Small Wars Insurg. 2011; 22(1): 55-77.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/09592318.2011.546579

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The collapse of the Soviet Union precipitated the massive expansion of drug use and trade in Russia. The country now has one of the largest populations of injecting drug users in the world and has become the largest single-country market for Afghan heroin. In 2003 the Federal Service for the Control of the Drugs Trade was created to coordinate a comprehensive counternarcotics strategy appropriate to the scale of this threat. The service continues to face a number of challenges in its early stages of development. However, it has made considerable advances in improving responses to large-scale organised crime and in building international cooperation.

Language: en

Keywords

Afghanistan; Collective Security Treaty Organisation; corruption; counternarcotics; drugs; FSKN; heroin; narcotics; NATO; opium; Russia; Soviet Union; terrorism; war on drugs