DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — Border troops in Tajikistan clashed with a gang of heroin traffickers attempting to smuggle drugs into the country from Afghanistan. One trafficker was wounded before the gang fled to Afghanistan, officials said. More than 25 kilograms of heroin and 1 kilogram of cocaine were found. (AP)

Investigators have uncovered a counterfeit drug factory, along with 20 million rubles ($670,000) worth of bogus pills, at the dacha of a former first deputy head of the Moscow metro police. Investigators have uncovered a counterfeit drug factory, along with 20 million rubles...

... attack. She returned to Russia for a tour in 2009 and during her Moscow concert, Houston dedicated one of her songs, "Look To You," to the 156 people who had died days before in a nightclub fire in Perm. Houston had admitted to struggling with drug problems for years. "Whitney Houston is gone. Six years ago we dined together. She looked lost and did drugs," Russian socialite and TV host Ksenia Sobchak wrote on Twitter, posting a video of Houston's most popular song, "I Will...

... We know our fathers and grandfathers fought for our shared motherland, the Soviet Union. I myself am the son of a front-line soldier who protected the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War," Atambayev said. Mainly Muslim Kyrgyzstan lies on a drug-trafficking route out of Afghanistan. Like Russia, it is also concerned about a possible spillover of Islamist militancy as NATO-led troops prepare to leave Afghanistan by 2014. Nikolai Bordyuzha, secretary-general of the Collective Security Treaty...

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DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — Tajikistan's top corruption fighter said Tuesday that the brother of a senior security official has been detained on suspicion of drug trafficking. Anti-corruption agency chief Fattokh Saidov said Faridun Umarov, the brother of the deputy head of the security agency, was suspected to be part of a trafficking syndicate dismantled last week that also included several law enforcement...

... witnessed a pair of teenagers robbing a woman and kicking her in the head. The police reportedly intervened and detained one of the teenagers, Leontyev. According to official reports, the policemen did not lay a finger on the suspect, who allegedly was a drug addict and died in detention as the result of a seizure. But soon after these media reports, the story radically changed. The police began feeding the public what appears to be one lie after another. First, instead of claiming that "no one...

... said. "He reads. He writes, studies languages." Dayan said Bout, if he speaks at all at sentencing, will say he is innocent of the charges. Bout fought extradition after his March 2008 arrest in a hotel conference room after meeting with two Drug Enforcement Administration informants who posed as officials of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The group has been classified by Washington as a narcoterrorist group. 179736

... such as ammunition, explosives and missiles — which has a history of delivering arms to sensitive destinations in the Middle East and Africa. He said ships switching off their AIS is "standard operating procedure" for ships involved in drug trafficking and clandestine arms shipments. (AP, Reuters) 179744

... donates even one-tenth of their fortune, their combined philanthropic contribution will be six times greater than what the government allocated for health and social development in 2011. Unfortunately, Russia has many serious ills, ranging from poverty to drug abuse, and the authorities have failed to effectively treat many of them. Fortunately, these ills could be cured, or at least mitigated, by philanthropic projects, especially if they are generously financed and implemented by the country's savviest...

... money and instead of buying normal food, they would buy rotten and expired goods and just kept the money for themselves.” Baizakov said several former penitentiary directors now face prosecution for alleged crimes that include running the prison drug trade. The protests in Kyrgyzstan’s prisons have caused international alarm. Matteo Mecacci, chair of the human rights committee of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, issued a statement in...