Posted 15 March 2016 - 07:28 PM

I live in Moscow and I want to share some of my consideration about nootropic landscape in Russia.

Some popular in the west compounds are illegal in Russia, and for a good reason.

1 Diphenhydramine, aka Moltrin PM which is OTC in US but it is illegal in Russia as it is often abused for hallucination.

2 Tianeptine was legal in Russia until it occured that it is not only good AD but dangerous addictive substance with many deaths. Now illegal.

3 Baklofen - almost the same, strictly by prescription, large potential for abuse.

New Russian compounds: noopept, semax, selank, phenotropil. In general I take very sceptical any testing which was done Russia or former SU. I know that they are often corrupted for commercial interests of sellers and not strictly controlled. Even if they have results, the safety side is not tested very much. They are often rather small. I tested many of these russian compounds, in general they don’t have sustainable positive results. They will probably will never get FDA approval, if they were strictly tested. Even if they works, nobody knows why and how.

I am now on personal selank test now, have some positive feelings in term of clarity, but not sure if it is placebo effect.

I didn't try ladasten and fenibut.

Some may think that Russia is nootropic wonderland, and some resellers may help to create this illusion. In fact, I did nootropic tourism to US, where you could order many new compounds which are in clinical trials now and are reasonably safe. It is not possible or risky to oder them if you are in Russia as they consider any white powder as a illegal drug on customs.

Modafinil and many other stims are strictly illegal in Russia.

I also prefer to buy foreign nootropil as it may be cleaner. I can buy it OTC. There are also many useful stuff OTC, including enerion, yohimbine etc.

Any questions?

Edited by turchin, 15 March 2016 - 07:29 PM.