Russian Outlet Topwar.ru Column: To Fight The Drug Trade, Lock Down Russia's Border With Central Asia
Animosity is growing towards illegal migrants from Central Asian countries that were formerly Soviet republics. Migrant communities have been blamed for crime and bullying ethnic Russians.[1] Topwar.ru columnist Anna Kozireva identifies the migrants as the main conduit for drugs flowing from Afghanistan to Russia. She writes that though the Taliban had promised to combat the