The former health minister promoted beetroot, garlic, and other foods as treatment for HIV AIDS, resulting in the nickname Dr. Beetroot, and has been accused of creating confusion about anti retroviral drugs.

The choice of food was great, a sort of post modern typical Russian kasha sushi, salad, borsht, meat, and cabbage.

Today, several countries in the European Union (EU), including France, Sweden and the Netherlands, are implementing a sugar beet fuel network.

In EU, oilseed plants, particularly rapeseed, are used more often than sugar beet to produce biofuel.

Biofuels as a source of energy in Europe. At the end of the past century, when heat engines appeared, people were conducting experiments with ethanol derived from beet as fuel.

Through support of a domestically fed biofuel industry, a base will be placed in the cereal and oilseed market and new markets found for the restructured sugar beet industry, without which marginal land is predicted to become a monoculture of grass