Details here. I don’t know this foundation’s work as well as I’d like. But I do know very well that all organized drug trafficking in the country operates under the supervision of officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Drug Control Service. There is no doubt that this Bychkov is simply being targeted for revenge. I can easily believe that there may have been some vigilantism there, beatings, and the like. But when prosecutors are asking for 12 years in a maximum-security penal colony, that’s just beyond the pale. People don’t get that much even for murder. At the same time, as I understand it, drug addiction in Sverdlovsk Region has long since gone beyond being an ordinary problem. Entire villages are strung out. If you don’t like Bychkov, then deal with the problem yourselves. But they aren’t dealing with it—they’re making money off it.