The director of Russia’s Federal Service for the Control of Narcotics, Viktor Ivanov, has described America’s change of drug war strategy in Afghanistan as “unsatisfactory”—agreeing with the assessment of US Senators Dianne Feinstein and Charles Grassley, among others. In 2009, the US began to phase out its poppy eradication efforts, targeting resources instead toward the drug labs that convert poppy into heroin, the transporters who move the product, and the drug lords who oversee this illegal economy. Russian officials have called the change a “mistake.”