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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said that the parliamentary elections held in Afghanistan will not lessen the drug threat coming from that country. \"It\'s clear that the Afghan parliamentary elections will not improve the situation in this sphere,\" Ivanov said during President Vladimir Putin\'s meeting with the Cabinet on Monday. (Interfax).The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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