Russian troops for Kazakstan border

The head of the Russian border service, Colonel-General Konstantin Totsky, says Moscow is not planning to increase the number of its troops on the Tajik-Afghan border.

He said the Russia had enough troops in Tajikistan -- the BBC Central Asia correspondent says it's Russia's biggest military contingent in the region, and Russia in many ways still regards Tajikistan as its southern border.

But General Totsky said there were plans to deploy more troops along Russia's long border with Kazakhstan, where he expressed concern about the drug trafficking and illegal migration.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service