MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...

"History teaches us that it will take a generation to render Afghanistan opium-free," the report reads. To eradicate this evil, "support to farmers, the arrest of corrupt officials and eradication measures must be concentrated in half a dozen provinces... so as to free them from the scourge of opium."

Not a very optimistic forecast. Especially for Russia, which is the main target of the Afghan drug trafficking, standing on its way to Europe. By November this year, the Russian Federal Service for Control of Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Circulation alone confiscated over 80 tons of drugs from Afghanistan, including 2 tons of heroin.

Moscow, however, was not too upbeat about the outlook for fighting Afghan drugs even before the release of the report. The Service's director, Viktor Cherkesov, says that measures taken in Afghanistan by the international community and the Afghan government, are insufficient and their efficiency is extremely low. International programs

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