20 June 2001 MINSK, 20 June (BASA-press)–Belarusian police admit that the narcotics business is booming in the former Soviet republic. Colonel Anatoly Gury declared that last year police forces confiscated 63 times more narcotics than in 1999, and arrested drug dealers and drug users 29 times more frequently than in the previous year. A total of 240 foreign citizens are […]

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