Perhaps Mr Putin thinks that promoting organic food will redress the balance of some other home grown activities (which I’m sure Maharishi was not contemplating when he said that “Russia will be your rescue”? In 2012, Rosoboronexport (Russia's exports/imports of defense-related and dual use products, technologies and services) received 1,877 enquiries from foreign clients, and, following consideration of the applications, 1,309 contracts were signed. This is 2.5 times more than in 2011. The most popular types of weaponry bought from Russia are Sukhoi and MiG fighters, air defense systems, helicopters, tanks, armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles.[8] Russian arms were exported to 60 countries. The most significant supplies went to countries in Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific region — 43 percent. The second most significant market remains the Near and Middle East, together with North Africa — 23 percent.[2] For the period 2010-14, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, found that Russian exports of major weapons had increased by 37 per cent between 2005-2009 and 2010-14. Russia delivered weapons to 56 states and to rebel forces in eastern Ukraine in 2010–14. Three countries— India, China and Algeria—accounted for almost 60 per cent of total Russian exports. Asia and Oceania received 66 per cent of Russian arms exports in 2010–14, Africa 12 per cent and the Middle East 10 per cent.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_industry_of_Russia Russia might be our rescue but who will rescue the (increasingly) vast amounts of trafficked people and drug addicts? “Russian mafia…structure, according to Frederico Varese, a professor of criminology at the University of Oxford and an expert on international organized crime…is composed of 10 separate quasi-autonomous “brigades” that operate more or less independently of each other. The group does pool its resources, however, and the money is overseen by a 12-person council that “meets regularly in different parts of the world, often disguising their meetings as festive occasions,” Varesi says. …its bread and butter is the drug trade and human trafficking. Russian organized crime in general is heavily involved in the heroin trade that originates in Afghanistan: it’s estimated that Russia consumes about 12% of the world’s heroin, while it contains just 0.5% of the world’s population.” http://fortune.com/2014/09/14/biggest-organized-crime-groups-in-the-world/
