Russian President Vladimir Putin deems it important to prevent the spillover of extremism from Afghanistan into the territories of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)’s member states and the recruitment of citizens into the ranks of militants, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday. “The problem of Afghan drug ...
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova called not only the humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan shocking, but also the reaction of the democratic world to it, RIA Novosti reports. “What is the Western world doing? These are the very NATO countries, the EU that have been putting things in order there ...