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Heroin smokers in a cemetery in Quetta cover themselves with their shawls to better capture the smoke.

A heroin smoker in Quetta lives alongside stray dogs under a bridge next to a sewage canal.

Heroin addicts injecting each other casts a shadow in Karachi.

One heroin addict injects another in the stomach on a pedestrian overpass in Karachi.

Heroin addicts on the streets of Karachi, smoking and shooting heroin.

Russia Today - Arguably the most famous street in Russia, Nevsky Prospekt was cut through forest land in the early 1700s. Now, in the early 2000s, it has become a forest of billboards - though plans are under way to limit their numbers.

Russia Today - Disinfection Center #2 in Lianozovo, a Moscow suburb, treats increasing numbers of underprivileged sufferers of infectious diseases. Many come voluntarily, but militia also rounds up the homeless and delivers them to such centers.

Russia Today - Siberian hipness, At the New York Times, a club founded by an American entrepreneur, locals and foreigners mix to the beat of blues, jazz, and rock.

Russia Today - The Internet Club, a teen hangout, has become this city's most popular cyber cafe. Overall in Russia, there is only one computer per hundred people, but sales of PCs are rising.

Russia Today - In the permafrosted swamps of western Siberia, the Samotlor oil field, one of the world's richest, guards its wealth with subzero, subhuman conditions. Russia is the world's second largest exporter of oil.