World’s new top opium producer revealed

Myanmar has seen significant rise in poppy farming as cultivation in Afghanistan declines, according to the UN Myanmar has become the world’s largest center of opium production in 2023, having overtaken Afghanistan, a new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has found.

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Germany and UK make Russian energy promise

Berlin and London are not planning to restore trade ties with Moscow even after the Ukraine conflict ends and President Vladimir Putin leaves office, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday citing German and British officials.

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Ignore rising condom prices – Orthodox Church

Promiscuity isn’t the path to happiness regardless of protection, according to the Moscow Patriarchate’s spokesman Russians should not be concerned that a pack of condoms in a pharmacy now costs more than $3, a spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church has said, noting that traditional sexual morality is the best protection against disease and death.

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