The flow of drugs into the Republic of Dagestan...
"The volume of confiscated heroin in the North Caucasus federal district testifies to the eight-fold increase in drug trafficking into that Russian region. In Dagestan, this trafficking has risen 60 times," Ivanov said.
Ivanov said growing drug trafficking caused a proportionate growth in crime, terrorist activity and was destabilizing the situation in the Caucasus.
"In actuality, the Afghan drug trafficking has become a catalyst for the development of negative processes in the North Caucasus," Ivanov said.
The Russian drug control official earlier said that successful anti-drug trafficking operations in Pakistan lately had redirected the flow of drugs into Russia from Afghanistan.
"According to our Pakistani colleagues, special operations caused a 70% weakening in the southern drug trafficking routes across Pakistan to India and that [percentage] has been redirected to the North Caucasus," Ivanov said.