Opiate of the party: North Korea fuels opium boom in Russia

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The Russian Far East is seeing an influx of opium and South Korea is seeking official confirmation of the North Korean role in the influx. North Korean smugglers are becoming more prominent in the remote eastern provinces of Russia and a North Korean defector has claimed that Pyongyang was operating secret poppy farms producing opium for export, to earn hard currency. The drug revenues were said to be used by the communist Workers' Party for its own expenses. Moscow does not want to jeopardize relations with Pyongyang, which have improved over the past two years.

Medicinal and Botanical Manufacturing, Medicinals and botanicals, Opiates, International aspects, Russian foreign relations, Narcotics, North Korea, North Korean foreign relations, Drug traffic, Bulk drugs, Opium trade

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Cash 'n carry cadres: Vietnamese workers-turned-traders spark resentments inRussia

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Vietnamese workers in Russia compensate for their low-paying jobs by trading in the blackmarket. Selling Vietnamese-made jeans toRussian teenagers, these unskilled laborers buy needed equipment which they send back to Vietnam. For this they need to evade strict export restrictions oftheir host country. Because of Vietnamese skill in going around the system, Russians have grown to resent these migrant workers to the point of racial hatred. However, changing economic conditions in Russia should serve to reverseattitudes towards Vietnamese.

Economic aspects, Race relations, Vietnamese in Soviet Union

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