Russia Dangles Leniency for Drug Crimes to Lift Business Climate
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Russia, notorious for its zero-tolerance approach to drug use, may have found a reason to liberalize its criminal code: foreign investors.
Russia is getting an unfair rap for statistics distorted by drug use, with 74 percent of serious crime in the country linked to narcotics, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev said Wednesday at a government meeting near Moscow. Using a lighter touch with addicts would burnish Russia’s appeal, he said.