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Drug Smuggler


Drug Smuggler

Fueled by economic collapse and social upheaval, drug-related crimes have soared in recent years in Yekaterinburg, an industrial city in Russia's Ural Mountains. Along with Moscow and St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg is one of Russia's chief narcotics markets. Here, narcotic officers arrest a Tajik drug smuggler accused of trafficking heroin.



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