russia. this is. the head of the russian federal drug control service straight after his graduation he served in the soviet. starting. director of the federal security service throughout. the administration of the russian president to the russian president in two thousand. russian federal drug control service during one of conferences he said that there are more than twenty four thousand registered. but they're.

very much for coming. when due to begin. or perhaps even the one. after the syrian. troops. one government. first there were. there was. no. old those changes were violent which. prompted.

but it's also in fact history shows that drug production usually follows military and political tensions. but it almost. you personally participated in the military actions in afghanistan in the eighty's and can compare the soviet methods with today's american methods. more effective do you think it's. frankly i didn't participate in the military actions directly but you could observe them right. i was an h.r. advisor but i certainly had an opportunity to see the way we have gained. the way in the quest for military operations and military achievements. i would make a distinction here because the u.s. and nato led international security assistance force and stand as a mandate of the u.n. security council. as of the war on terror. the

often say today that this is no longer a war against terrorists so unfortunately you do more and more becomes a war against insurgents. actually saw the troops were also blamed for this fighting insurgents rather than establishing order yes there were such meetings today. in your opinion what is the most efficient way of fighting drugs. say in a. plain physical eradication the reason i'm asking is because i recall that monsoonal brainiac. with the head of security forces in a big region and he said it's impossible to do away with drugs of people cultivate them it's practically impossible as soon as the communist rule was over and free market and became a new reality right away. fama supai everywhere if we cut down their poppy their

families would die a little too much so there's nothing we can do for them is the situation similar in afghanistan. you know there are many many. illegal drug trade on the one and. non-medical use of drugs on the other but that i should be easier to get some of the same things that only get that it's necessary to reduce the amount of police had drugs on the market and at the same time the demand for drugs should also be diminished among the population so these approaches have more recorded in three so called anti-drug conventions adopted by the us if they do that as a way one of the priorities in this struggle is already crops which can be used for production but. as a matter of fact this political priority was set at the un general assembly session in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight somebody said and it was confirmed in two

thousand and nine when the general assembly had been considering the work of the un commission on north korea. unfortunately afghanistan is extremely ineffective in eradication of crops used for to run production and there are no results there. less than three per cent of the drug czar destroyed. compare this with colombia where both seventy percent of drug plantations are destroyed annually you see the fact totally different social. well in fact russia is not only a transit zone for drugs in recent years russia has become the largest market for afghan heroin spotlights me there were reports. producer ninety two percent of global opium poppy school today did. here his market

is very good at sixty five billion dollars involved fifty million addicts which one hundred thousand die each year. apiece to be haunted by the florida afghan drop trade to the federal drug control service all one hundred and eighty have been drug cartels have been busy trafficking the russian federation controlled fissions point out that most of the truck business is done and they have been provinces that are under the control of coalition forces and therefore in this zone over sponsibility in the since the u.s. led incursion began a stunning increase in the call to the drug has spread through neighboring to dawn and other central asian countries making neighboring russia particularly vulnerable to a last year's u.n. report no worse than seventy tons of heroin were trafficked to russia in two thousand and eight that's three times more than to the u.s.

and canada together the smuggling of a opiates has been few and diction then drug use alone trafficking routes over the last one particular truck in russia skyrocketed to unfold and now up to forty thousand lives. if you just said afghans are very slack in fighting against the poppy plantations and it's hardly possible to eradicate much poppy using just such week as we've just seen. but here's another thing those farmers from all feel sorry for they're not drug dealers but they just provide for their families because pop is the most profitable cropped they sell is very cheap to those who produce drugs why don't pharmaceutical companies buy it from them for him as they are absolutely right about the financial aspect of the show because they sell drugs for making profit.

southern afghanistan and that's where clashes take place and it's no accident here things look a problem in self helmand which produces sixty five percent of the world's aussie it has always been the richest province but the richest former live in helmand but it could climatic conditions near theory could. have the helmand river and there is a wonderful system of irrigation in other words they knew they were needed money they were then wealthiest people and today this province has more troops than any other place so the financial factor they need to make a living is not the key here. but probably they became even richer when they started to cultivate poppy. they switched to poppy right but instead of getting richer they became poor reformers who grew up in the economy very little money by the way to prosper all dropped last year it was ninety dollars in two thousand and eight and this year it cost sixty dollars if you mean wrong yes wrong while the

price for herring has tripled in afghanistan if that does you understand that you mean been a fisher is here are not formers but. no not producers dealers the ride is special for those who deal with wholesale trade trafficking dealers and i think a lot of that is still i'd like to repeat my question which is why doesn't government buy this raw opium from pharma as. well the video we just saw says there again is ten producers and sixty five billion dollars worth of drugs what the former see it is nearly three hundred to three hundred in a fifty million dollars. that the taliban is said to participate as well. participates only to arm and organized resistance to foreign troops. working to the u.s. senate committee on foreign relations this taliban earn seventy two one. fifty million

dollars which is merely steere zero point two percent of the overall drug production. the corrupt afghan government is running this business that the afghan government is corrupt and it's not used for anybody by the way at the london conference on afghanistan it was said the level of corruption is extremely high in his country so this means they are involved in drug production. this means some government officials are involved in drug production and. we've asked our american colleagues to provide us with information on those who are in the polls in this process both government officials and those who finance this illicit activity and profit from it is a. huge so what do the americans say. fortunately we haven't heard from them yet by the way visited to washington in september and i met with the gill can only call it was a high ranking official in the us administration i give him a list of drug brands which are available in russia one hundred and seventy five

brands and this means to around one hundred and seventy five of the border stories in afghanistan producing drugs for russia. tens of ghana stance of organists how did you what about u.s. troops fighting against evil in afghanistan. by should know but it was it's obvious that insurgency is evil no matter how you call it the right time but what about drugs law are they evil too. why don't americans fight against drugs well. i believe illicit drug production is absolutely if you will and the entire international community has agreed with it what that considering the amount of drugs produced this problem has gone beyond a ganesan long time ago and that of course there are two rugs are trafficked why the three major. countries besides russia europe is another big.

consumer. comes to us he comes by the northern route why is the country so central asia and this southern route. all across the world by seas. head of the federal drug control. shortly will continue this interview in less than a minute stay with us. wealthy british style. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports. for bush. always by one vote for kerry for kerry so the people that are going to be validating this machine can stand there all day long and vote for somebody and it will be right every time but the guy can walk up here and if he hits the right button. he can flip the boat that he took. a. walk i'm back to spotlight i'm. reminded that of my guest today is he head of

the russian federal drug control service. of this or the north we began talking about combating drug trafficking from afghanistan both to europe and russia that i see and afghanistan itself some of the who do you count on what for some help in the cuckoo pool in this matter and from the americans and their allies who are fighting of caught there with all the afghan government that is highly corrupted as you well know and say. look at the look at coole or is there no one you can count on there should. we count on setting up a wide anti-drug coalition that. it was used to isn't there one today is going to use my views our efforts are not coordinated and the steps taken to really cute drug production in afghanistan are insufficient because you are not companies also let me clarify this idea first of all the international community and the united

nations in the first place should consolidate its efforts and acknowledges loose disgraceful phenomena which if there is a produces twice as more sharing then the whole world. but he's ordered this phenomenon to be classified as a threat to world peace and security. this is not the competence of the u.n. general assembly at the this is the cause. competence of the u.n. security council unfortunately so far there has been only discussion no common stance has been worked out and when it is worked out an irrelevant resolution is adopted this will be a major step towards eliminating draws production in afghanistan secondly the world community including the u.n. security council issued and a mandate for the international security and stability and assistance force once

the building can be the arena state it has become a drug manufacturer base and cook with no stability toll of course more so in our view. with the u.n. mandate they have taken up responsibility for afghanistan's future should take care of that when you start off so it will end the mandate should include iraq war meant that the military force used to destroy drug production. companies and thirdly at the federal the fish and seal of the international programs and standing in competition with threats the implementation of these programs is the answer to better security which is transparent control of the international community but it's the heat that us but for example mr richard holbrooke says the destroying poppy fields is too expensive when you stand inefficient at the mall well there is no way you can be efficient if you are using methods that are clearly inefficient

and you should see it in the middle like using a twig yes there are some very efficient methods like the pell. as you can see nothing much can be accomplished with a twig as for not home it's something i would hardly recommend of course however we curb besides our spurred by helicopters and aircraft to destroy plantations in colombia i don't this is the same way you destroy we it's they use a substance called lifeless. incidentally mini for misuse is to eliminate weeds thomas thomas wife a top official of the u.s. department of state was in charge of trafficking becomes an art cortex program for ten he's now retired says he has a point and would grind to have lunch with his fingers before spring it on the weeds it's got this substance it's not that harmful but it can be very efficient in eliminating plantations that. i see this part of the way it's

a mystery of an off which let's now talk about drugs in russia. as far as i know drug consumption is on the rise in russia. despite the outstanding measures being taken to choose what causes that demand to supply other afghan produces and dealers to blame or is it the situation in no country that generates the demand. for luck term or first that the number of drug abusers has not been grown actually. the actual number of people but yes the number of drug consumers practically stabilized scene two thousand or two thousand and want to do it approach and it's going to growth was basically exponential what about the good thirty four cent that it's added every year well torrington still the current levels on acceptably high but the most because it's too many people who are english to enjoy them use. of the

that's the first point then there is another thing the composition of drug consumption in russia differs briefly from so that in europe or in the united states. but the difference is ninety percent of former drug addicted patients use op units from ghana stan herring first of all and according to the world health organization erin you see most. reparation that causes severe addiction pathological different vision of the personality which invariably leads to death in five or seven years. in other words russians same as with alcohol prefer strong things at this. yes we should admit but sharing consumption in our country is huge for which there are two major causes first there is an external factor of danny stand being

a neighboring country producing an immense amount of narcotics but which you can one hundred in seventy five. and in the year. we say you think the most important factor is important even main thing is there is supply right. you cannot produce heroin in russia as it's climatic conditions are not suitable why is your agency against a methadone treatment which has been adopted in many countries and proved effective russia has categorically against it. but i would question your last statement that it proved effective and there have been no confirmed clinical scientific tests what's more methadone addiction use more severe incidentally heroin intoxication is relieved in d.c. cloris methadone intoxication was forty five days. so it just said there have been no clinical tests. but then why is

methadone use in many countries to treat drug addicts. there is such a therapy what is it based on so well it's a new us they have no federal regulation about this. well it varies from state to state right yes it varies from state to state as a matter of fact it's an experiment in russia we to conduct experiments. however our consolidated position is that methadone therapy is inefficient russia i'm sorry i just want. to say that ukraine belarus and the baltic states approved the use of methadone treatment our colleagues from these countries say the situation there changed for the worse and the number of drug addicts has grown. russia is known for its tough measures when it comes to them. there is much talk about plans to introduce a compulsive treatment of drug addiction as it used to be back in the soviet times

. it is also said that compulsive medical examination will be introduced to for instance of students is that true are you preparing such measures and you know it's not true by the way speaking of tough measures against narcotic trunks we are alleging be kind in terms of the toughness and systemic character of measures taken against illegal drug trade but it was a quantum about a lot of. behind who show up in the united states growing since queen of the united states has this school act and anyone who sells something schools serve them three hundred feet or so from school are subject to bigger responsibility that two or three fold even that means those drugs. not necessarily to children just as long as there's still something there russian law serious responsibility stuart's if this was where what he was going to sell

obviously all the suspects say they were not aware yes we're compulsive treatment and as a head of the agency i can assure you with my full responsibility that we have no such plans it's got it it will what's your recent campaign against spices. or herbal smoking blends caused quite a stir recently why did you choose to pay such an attention to them. well i have to admit it was not our campaign but i mean this was not launched by the federal drug control service we're trying to work with the pope. so channel two staged a campaign button reported about this problem rooted in our society. spices appeared in our markets no longer and became popular on this very quickly our legislation field to quickly adapt itself by listing new horrible smoking blends in long car kordic substances however now this decision has been made as you may know six on december thirty first

a governmental decree was adopted banning us that they just selling off its herbal small cleared lands under the threat alpha prime and old prosecution it would be to see the supposed go on as this essentially your respondent to the situation yes you now must see our thank you to the public journalists when there is having drawn attention to the problem which eventually shouts prompt passing of the bills thank you very much i can only hope you respond promptly to problems in the future because it's common knowledge that swindlers are often faster in their trades than those who combat them but will defeat them thanks to our systemic approach and political will thank you very much for being with us and just to remind you that my guest here in this studio today was the head of the russian federal drug control center and that's it for the after of all of us here will be back with more first and comments on what's going on in an outside rush until then stay on our team and

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