The funds received from the illegal drug trade are actively used to finance the "color revolutions", says the first deputy head of the Federal Drug Control Service Vladimir Kalanda. “We should not forget that in addition to influencing the economic system, the proceeds from drug production are used to finance terrorism, organize mass civil disobedience actions, “color revolutions,” Kalanda said at a round table in Yerevan as part of the forum. Eurasian Economic Perspective”. According to him, in Ukraine, “one of the most active participants in the Maidan were representatives of the so-called sectarian non-governmental organizations that allegedly were engaged in the rehabilitation of drug users.” It is they who currently, according to Kalanda, "make up shock troops" of volunteer battalions.