Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, “Illicit Drug Trends in the Russian Federation,” April 2008.

In 2006, Russian law enforcement agencies arrest more than 3,000 foreigners of drug trafficking in Russia.  The traffickers were mostly from Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan.  Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, “Illicit Drug Trends in the Russian Federation,” April 2008.

There are 517,389 registered users of illicit drugs in Russia.  Estimates have the total number of users as high as 4 million.  Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, “Illicit Drug Trends in the Russian Federation,” April 2008.

Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, “Illicit Drug Trends in the Russian Federation,” April 2008. 

U.S. copyright industries estimate that they lost in excess of $1.4 billion in 2007 due to copyright piracy in Russia.  Source: “2008 Special 301 Report,” Office of the United States Trade Representative, April 25, 2008. 

Between the years 1995-2005, an estimated 500,000 to 850,000 women were believed to have been trafficked out of the country.   Human Trafficking Expert Louis Shelley writes ” many of these women, however, went abroad to work in a variety of difficult labor situations and only a much smaller share went directly into the sex [...]

Women who are trafficked into Israel comes from the following countries:  Russia; Moldova; Ukraine; Uzbekistan; Belarus.

The Untied States Trade Representive is accusing China and Russia of flooding the global marketplace with counterfeit and pirated goods From AFP: The United States on Friday named China and Russia as among the worst protectors of intellectual property rights, flooding global trade with counterfeit items such as DVDs, designer bags, medicines and software. In an annual report [...]

According to the Russian News and Information Agency, “Russian customs bodies uncovered 1,628 cases of counterfeit goods in 2006, up four-fold from 390 cases in 2005.” Source: “Import of counterfeit goods up four-fold in Russia in 2006,” RIA Novosti, April 25, 2007,(accessed: April 26, 2007).

Law enforcement officials estimates that the counterfeit goods account for 15 to 17 percent of the Russian market. Source: “Import of counterfeit goods up four-fold in Russia in 2006,” RIA Novosti, April 25, 2007,(accessed: April 26, 2007).