Russia

The consensus from local research organisations, such as RMBC, DSN Group and Pharmexpert, is that Russia's pharmaceutical market will continue to exhibit strong growth in the coming... 2008-01-21

Like the pharmaceutical market, Russia's US$1.67bn medical device sector is displaying robust growth, driven predominately by Russia's expanding economy and improving health investment.... 2008-01-08

Russia is attempting to fill gaps in health coverage across the country through the use of medical trains equipped with telemedicine capabilities. Due to the size of the country,... 2008-01-02

The auction system for Russia's state reimbursement programme, the DLO, has come under fire again, with the healthcare council of a workers organisation, the ARPO, claiming that some... 2007-12-13

The number of clinical trials being undertaken in Russia is rising again suggesting that the country is recovering from the damaging regulatory setbacks earlier this year. What is... 2007-11-20

Although the drug markets in Russia and Ukraine grew rapidly in 2006-2007 both countries remain predominately generics-based. Low-cost copies account for 53% and 76% of the total... 2007-11-07

The Russian government is to restructure the state-run reimbursement scheme, the DLO, giving more power to regional authorities. However,

Russia's largest domestic drugmaker Pharmstandard has posted encouraging results for the first half of 2007, as the local market continues to boom. Sales in the period increased... 2007-10-10

The Russian drug industry's hope of receiving more state support should be boosted by comments recently made by new Prime Minister Victor Zubkhov, when he declared the necessity of... 2007-10-05

German drugmaker Stada has acquired Russian pharmaceutical group Mazik , in a deal worth approximately EUR135mn (US$185.87mn). This is the second purchase that Stada has made in... 2007-08-08