Talking Drugs Updates from Eastern Europe and Central Asia [June 2021]
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1. Russian popular journalist Yuri Dud has been accused of publishing drug propaganda when interviewing rapper Morgenstern and blogger IOneGuy, Meduza…
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TalkingDrugs News from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region [June 2021]
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Russian TV presenter Yury Dudy has become a defendant in an administrative case of drug propaganda because of his interviews…
Drug Pragmatics – Who decides: the police or the doctor?
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In 2014, a trial was completed in Russia against a doctor, Alevtina Khorinyak, who was prosecuted for writing a prescription…
Russia and Belarus officially oppose harm reduction, decriminalisation and human rights – at the UN signed the Political Declaration on HIV-AIDS 2021
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On 8 June 2021, the UN High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in New York adopted the 2021 Political Declaration on…
Talking Drugs Updates from Eastern Europe and Central Asia [May 2021]
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1. Russia: policemen, who were declared guilty of planting drugs to Russian journalist Ivan Golunov, have been sentenced to up…
TalkingDrugs News from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region [May 2021]
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Police officers who planted drugs on Russian journalist Ivan Golunov have been sentenced to up to 12 years in prison,…
Talking Drugs Updates from Eastern Europe and Central Asia [April 2021]
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Ukraine: Instead of drug policy reform, Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers adopted a decree allowing for the legal circulation of a…
TalkingDrugs News from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region [April 2021]
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Ukraine: Instead of drug policy reform, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted a decree on the circulation of some cannabis-based medicines…
New psychoactive substances in Estonia: fentanyl, alpha-PVP and harm reduction
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Estonia has historically had an extremely high number of drug-related deaths per capita. However, over the past 3 years, according…
Ukraine: Legal Medical Cannabis Offers Only Two Expensive Drugs For Patients
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On 7 April, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted Resolution No. 324 on the removal of certain cannabis-based preparations…
Talking Drugs Updates from Eastern Europe and Central Asia [March 2021]
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DECRIM: Redistribution of the state budget from criminalization to the expansion of harm reduction services in the EECA region will help defeat…
TalkingDrugs News from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region [March 2021]
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Reallocating state budgets from criminalisation to the expansion of harm reduction services in the EECA region can defeat the HIV…