Siberian anti-drug police chief caught selling heroinThe head of the Russian police’s anti-narcotics department in southwest Siberia has been arrested for selling heroin, local investigators said Monday.16:51 07.10.2013
Russian police post $30,000 reward for wanted drug baronRussian police are offering a 1 million ruble ($30,000) reward for information on the whereabouts of a key member of an international drug ring suspected of smuggling “hundreds of kilograms of cocaine” from Colombia to Europe and Africa via Russia.11:57 30.09.2013
Russian national suspected of drug smuggling deported from ThailandRussian national Anatoly Gural suspected of drug smuggling has been deported from Thailand to Russia.10:44 25.09.2013
Russia seizing 10 times more cocaine at border – drug policeRussia’s seizures of cocaine on its borders have risen tenfold this year, the head of the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) said this week.12:39 24.09.2013
Over 8 mln Russians are drug addicts – government reportThe number of drug addicts in Russia is estimated at 8.5 million people, or almost six percent of the total population, a government report said Tuesday.12:41 17.09.2013
Russian drug police to gain access to border-crossing databaseRussian Drug Control Service will be granted access to unified transport security information system this fall, the service’s head Viktor Ivanov said on Friday.11:54 13.09.2013
Russian city lawmaker nabbed with cannabis – drug policeA municipal lawmaker in Russia’s Urals region has been detained after drug police found over 4 kilograms of cannabis split between his car and a garage where he was allegedly packaging the drugs with an associate, regional narcotics officials said Wednesday, adding that both men had been high at the time.12:23 11.09.2013
German national sentenced to 9.5 years for drug smuggling in RussiaThe District Court of Kaliningrad sentenced a German national who was convicted of having smuggled nearly two kilograms of amphetamine across the border to 9.5 years in prison.16:55 09.09.2013
Indonesian court upholds death sentence for elderly UK drug smugglerThe sentence handed down to Lindsay Sandiford, a British woman in her late 50s sentenced to death by firing squad in Indonesia after having been caught with a large quantity of cocaine in the Bali airport, has been upheld on appeal.14:26 30.08.2013
Russian woman held at Hong Kong airport with 12 kilos of cocaine – reportA Russian woman has been detained at Hong Kong airport with 12 kilograms of cocaine in her backpack, the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday.11:44 15.08.2013
Russian surgeon stole heroin from drug mule's stomach – policeA surgeon who operated on a drugs mule in an East Siberian town stole heroin from his stomach and was detained while high, regional police said Tuesday.16:10 13.08.2013
Russian police smash 20-year old drug and murder gangRussian investigators said Tuesday they have charged the members a St. Petersburg crime gang suspected of carrying out a string of murders and smuggling drugs during the country’s turbulent 1990s.14:28 06.08.2013
Moscow police find prayers for protection amidst massive cocaine shipmentThe Moscow police have reported that among boxes containing upwards of 120 kilos of cocaine, each one contained sheets of paper with special prayers for protection on them.16:10 26.07.2013
Anti-drugs vigilante to run for mayor in Russia's 4th largest cityRussia’s most outspoken anti-drugs campaigner said Friday that he will run for mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city, whose authorities have for years been trying to close down his controversial rehabilitation center and stop his campaign against drug dealers, corrupt officials and police.14:45 19.07.2013
Drug rings use polygraph testing for courier evaluation - policeCriminal groups controlling the distribution of designer drugs in Moscow use polygraph tests when screening for potential employees, Moscow’s deputy chief drug cop Yuri Devyatkin told journalists Friday.12:16 19.07.2013
Wrestler gets 5 years in prison for bringing steroids from ThailandA court in Irkutsk in eastern Siberia has sentenced wrestler Igor Cherkesov in absentia to five years in prison for bring prohibited medicine from Thailand, the regional department of the Federal Drug Control Service reported on Tuesday.13:51 16.07.2013
Russian pilot's defense seeks Russian and Ukrainian support in US courtA US judge has refused to accept documents proving that the US secret services' hunt for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko in Ukraine was illegal, lawyer Alexei Tarasov told RIA Novosti on the phone from Oklahoma City on Thursday.12:51 04.07.2013
Drug users to be fined for refusing rehabThe State Duma has adopted a bill in the first reading introducing administrative liability for drug users who shirk treatment and medical and social rehabilitation.10:19 03.07.2013
Charge added to fake cancer drug caseInvestigators in Russia's Rostov Region have charged the main defendant in a case involving the distribution of fake cancer drugs with creating a criminal group, RIA Novosti reported Tuesday.16:26 02.07.2013
Georgian police uncover former officials' caches of weapons and drugsThe state security service of the Georgian Interior Ministry has found secret caches of weapons, drugs and videotaped tortures hidden in Samegrelo, western Georgia, by high-ranking ministry officials under the previous government.15:33 17.06.2013