MOSCOW. Oct 21 (Interfax) - The Afghan drug crop has doubled in the zone of NATO's military operation, said chief of the Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Ivanov.
"Afghanistan has gathered two times more opium in 2011 than last year. Therefore, the heroin pressure on Central Asia and Russia will double, too," Ivanov told the government commission for anti-drug programs in Central Asia.
"This provides vivid proof that a new heroin tsunami has formed in the zone of the military operation of the security assistance force in Afghanistan under NATO's command, which is about to come down and cover the post-Soviet space and the European Union," he said.