The Afghan drug threat is one of the worst problems for Russia’s national security, the deputy director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s new challenges and threats department, Alexei Rogov, told TASS on Tuesday.

“Afghan drugs are one of the main threats to Russia’s national security,” Rogov said. “Drugs affect our younger generation. They ruin the lives of hundreds, thousands of people. They nourish international terrorism, which is getting increasingly active in Afghanistan and tends to set eyes on the Central Asian countries,” he added.

In particular, Rogov pointed to the growing activity in Afghanistan of the terrorist organization Islamic State (outlawed in Russia).

“Lately, a new trend developed. Methamphetamine has begun to be mass-produced in Afghanistan. It is a new generation of the drug threat. In particular, we can observe this in the former Golden Triangle area, where active transition to methamphetamine is underway, because it is cheaper and can be delivered to consumers with greater effectiveness. The same happens in Afghanistan,” Rogov said.

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