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Heroin: The Lifeblood of Tajikistan’s Economy
- April 29, 2012
- Afghanistan
- Asia
- CCCP
- Central Asia
- Drug trade
- drugs trafficking
- Dushanbe
- Emomali Rakhmon
- former Soviet Republic
- Heroin
- institutionalized corruption
- opiates
- Opium
- patronage networks
- Russia
- Silk Road
- Soviet Union
- Tajikistan
- Tajikistan's Drug Control Agency
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime
- United Nations
- USSR
Less than two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, former Soviet republic Tajikistan can best be classified as an economic catastrophe: Tajikistan is dependent on remittances from Tajiks living abroad and this is equivalent to roughly 45% of GDP. Further, poverty is extremely widespread, with half of the country’s population of eight million […]
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