Russia's top drug cop assails US over Afghan heroin: "Moscow's top anti-drug cop slammed Washington on Saturday over US policies on opium production in Afghanistan, news agencies reported, amid concern over a deadly wave of heroin use in Russia.
'US statements on its refusal to eradicate opium plantations... sound like a solid guarantee of impunity for drug producers,' Viktor Ivanov, head of Russia's Federal Narcotics Control Service, was quoted as saying.
After taking office last year, US President Barack Obama made a major policy shift by ending a military drive to destroy poppies, believing it alienated Afghanistan's poorest who only grew the crop to make money."
