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Poppy seed and mushrooms: Oryol's drug problems, Elena Godlevskaya

In Oryol the peak of drug distribution and the fashion for heroin among young people was in the late 1990s. Drugs could be bought on the street, at schools and universities, and in clubs and discos. At that time local organized crime groups were...

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Delhi's Common-poverty Games, Michael Arthur

Few would describe Delhi as a calm and peaceful city. But the noise pollution has reached a crescendo recently as construction workers toil day and night. This October, once the baking north Indian summer has eased, Delhi will stage the 2010...

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Is the Afghan "Jirgah" the way forward?, Carlo Ungaro

The military intervention in Afghanistan has become one of the longest-lasting war efforts in US history. It does not look like a coincidence that particularly deadly attacks are being carried out by the Taleban, while the repeated threats of an...

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Migration: development on the move, Alex Glennie

Between 2006 and 2010, the Institute for Public Policy Research and the Global Development Network conducted a major research project on the development impacts of migration. Working in collaboration with local research partners in seven countries...

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