MOSCOW. March 30 (Interfax-AVN) - President Vladimir Putin admitted that drug trafficking and related crime pose serious security threats to Russia.
"We should openly say that a stable, well organized and broad network of drug traffickers has emerged in Russia that includes drug production, transportation and dealing," he told the board of the Federal Drug Control Service on Tuesday.
"The Russian drug trafficking community is becoming part of the international drug mafia and has organized all kinds of operations throughout the chain, including the legalization of drug-related incomes abroad," he said.