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According to the decree of Vladimir Putin, the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) was to cease to exist by June 1 of this year.

In the decree signed on May 26 by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the date of the final transfer of all functions, staffing, weapons and a considerable number of facilities and other property of the State Drug Control Service belonging to the department is December 31, 2016. In the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Deputy Minister Colonel-General of Police Mikhail Vanichkin is now responsible for the fight against drugs. Former director of the Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Ivanov went on vacation.

There is no official information about new posts for the leadership of the Federal Drug Control Service yet. And there are troubles.

For example, the first deputy director of the Federal Drug Control Service was (and is still listed on the website in this position) Police Colonel General Vladimir Kalanda, Ivanov's former assistant when he was deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. So, his wife Larisa Kalanda, who made a dizzying career in the 2000s, first at Rosneftegaz, and then at Rosneft (according to the declaration, her income in 2014 was 334.5 million rubles), a month after fatal for the FSKN presidential decree, she was fired from her position in the country's main oil company (the Rosneft website states that the reason for the dismissal was the end of the contract "due to personal circumstances"). Another deputy of Ivanov and also Colonel-General Mikhail Kiyko, according to rumors circulating among the officers of the Federal Drug Control Service, is making considerable efforts in order to become deputy commander-in-chief of the National Guard. However, Kiyko was also lucky with his wife: Svetlana Kiyko was a shareholder of Saratovneftegeofizika for a long time - the sale of the package allowed her to declare an income of 548 million rubles in 2014.

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Most drug cops will now have to look for a new job. source An NT close to the leadership of the State Drug Control Service says that out of 27,000 fired employees of the Federal Drug Control Service, only about 4,000 will go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Special forces "Thunder", apparently, will go to the National Guard. Operas will become district inspectors, and the generals, of whom there were several dozen in the department, will resign, since there are no suitable positions in the ministry for them. Viktor Ivanov himself allegedly refused the post of Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and claims to be the head of Roszdravnadzor. And his deputies (there were five of them in the Federal Drug Control Service) after some time will emerge in various commercial structures and funds. Among them, by the way, is Colonel-General of Police Nikolai Aulov, whose name became known to the general public in connection with the case of the “Russian mafia” in Spain (NT wrote in detail both about the case and suspicions against Aulov in No. 40 of November 30 2015 ): in March 2016, the court of Madrid decided to arrest him in absentia and put him on the international wanted list.

“The worst thing is that the system of struggle against drug dealers built up over the years will now go to dust,” tells NT an interlocutor from the Federal Drug Control Service . “No one will give their intelligence network to unfamiliar police officers. And the fate of the embedded agents is completely unenviable - often, after the disbandment of the security forces, databases marked "top secret" are put up for sale. The judicial prospect of thousands of criminal cases that were investigated by the State Drug Control Service is also vague. Already today, dismissed employees of the department are taking home folders with documents. “My colleagues and I joke that after the state threw us through the male genital organ, we will have to earn a living doing what we understand - drug trafficking,” the officer who lost his job grins sadly.