Health and Social Development Minister Tatyana Golikova said Friday that the government plans to increase spending on health care to 5.5 percent of gross domestic product by 2020, a significant rise compared to recent years. Health and Social Development...

...," the mother of one of the babies told the web site. Investigators have opened a criminal inquiry into "negligence that resulted in the death of two or more people." It is also investigating the local power supplier. Kabardino-Balkaria health officials denied that the deaths were caused by the negligence of doctors. According to a World Health Organization study, almost 99 percent of newborn or neonatal deaths — those in the first four weeks of life — occur in the developing...

... enters the World Trade Organization. New regulations are needed on the pharmaceuticals market before Russia enters the World Trade Organization, the head of the Association of International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers said Monday. "The Health and Social Development Ministry needs to develop new regulation in the pharmaceuticals market now. These steps are not being taken, [and] we only have a law on the distribution of medicines, which was adopted without consideration of WTO entry...

President Dimitry Medvedev fired St. Petersburg police chief Mikhail Sukhodolsky from his post Friday after the colonel-general failed to attend an important Interior Ministry meeting because of unspecified health reasons, Interfax reported. President Dimitry Medvedev fired St. Petersburg police chief Mikhail Sukhodolsky from his post Friday after the colonel-general failed to attend an important Interior Ministry meeting because of unspecified health reasons...

... a Russian teacher, Shevyakova said, and Russian, along with employment at the hospital, is passed down through generations in some families. The work is considered highly desirable among the Ethiopians. It comes with the significant benefit of free health care for the employee and his entire family. "And that can be a lot of people," Shevyakova noted, adding the hospital also provides free care to Patriots of Ethiopia — members of the resistance during the World War II-era Italian...

... services. The resignation has been expected since December, when Customs Union partners Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan agreed on Khristenko's chairmanship of the new body. Khristenko, who has served as head of the ministry since 2004, is married to Health and Social Development Minister Tatyana Golikova. Both faced accusations of corruption last year after a prominent doctor criticized the way the health ministry was being run. The family also has close ties to industry. Khristenko's son-in-law...

The city-run Moscow Center for Children's and Family Leisure and Health, or MCC, might receive 500 billion rubles ($16 billion) to build kindergartens, housing, schools and medical facilities. The city-run Moscow Center for Children's and Family Leisure and Health, or MCC, might receive 500 billion rubles...

... children — were hospitalized with hypothermia or frostbite in Moscow this week. A least one homeless person died and 33 others — including eight children — were hospitalized with hypothermia or frostbite in Moscow this week, City Hall's health care department announced Thursday. In all, 24 people have frozen to death in Moscow's streets between November and late January, most of them homeless, said Vladimir Petrosyan, head of City Hall's social protection department, Itar-Tass reported...

... to be arrested, leaving the English-educated Yevgenia, 31, the only close relative left in Kiev. Yevgenia, who is married to a British rock singer, now makes a six-hour car trip from Kiev to a prison in Kharkiv twice a week to see her mother, whose health and conditions are the subject of an information battle between her lawyers and officials. Yevgenia says her mother is in constant pain from a recurring back problem and has not been able to get up unaided since early November. “The Health...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Prosecutors in Kyrgyzstan say seven people face charges over the import of contaminated radioactive coal from Kazakhstan. The prosecutor general's office said Tuesday that health and customs officers allowed the coal to be sent to schools, an orphanage and an old people's home. The case has caused a furor, with rival politicians accusing one another of benefiting financially from the deal. (AP)

... VTB Andrei Kostin on Thursday called for business to support the government ahead of next month's presidential election, hinting that entrepreneurs' participation in opposition protests could be hazardous to their health. President of state-controlled bank VTB Andrei Kostin on Thursday called for business to support the government ahead of next month’s presidential election, hinting that entrepreneurs’ participation in opposition protests could be...

... camera footage shows people parking nearby and walking past the child during the hour she lay on the ground, Life News reported. The teacher who discovered the child called the police and an ambulance. Doctors who examined the girl said she was in good health and had been born less than 24 hours before. Police are searching for the woman who abandoned the child. Moscow has been experiencing bitter cold temperatures of late, with a low of minus 23 C on Wednesday. Twenty-four people froze to death in...

... spots on a list of the country's most influential women published Monday by radio station Ekho Moskvy. The list's top 10 included others in the upper echelons of government, including Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina, ranked fifth, and Health and Social Development Minister Tatyana Golikova, ranked sixth. Socialite and TV personality Ksenia Sobchak was seventh on the list, and Moscow Helsinki Group head Lyudmila Alekseyeva was 10th. The rankings were assigned by a so-called expert council...

... called for the investigation to be closed, will not cooperate with investigators and resist their threats to "illegally" appoint a lawyer to represent them, Hermitage Capital said in a statement. Officials have blamed Magnitsky's death on health problems, but the Kremlin human rights council said in July that he was severely beaten shortly before his death. Two prison doctors have been charged in connection with his death, while several police officials whom Magnitsky accused of theft...

One soldier has died and 42 more were hospitalized with pneumonia in the Krasnoyarsk region, prompting speculation that the temperature inside the soldiers' barracks was kept too low. One soldier has died and 42 more were hospitalized with pneumonia in the Krasnoyarsk region, prompting speculation that the temperature inside the soldiers' barracks was kept too low. Ivan Permitin, an 18-year-old private stationed in the Krasnoyarsk region town of Uzhur, died of septic shock...

... retirement age in order to make their pension systems more stable. The current retirement age in Russia is 55 for women and 60 for men. Men in Russia have a life expectancy of 62, while women live on average to the age of 74, according to data from the World Health Organization. The World Bank's new country director for Russia, Michal Rutkowski, said Monday that Russia might eventually confront the need to raise the retirement age, Interfax reported. Rutkowski led the Polish government's drive to reform the...

... constantly kept in a lit cell under video surveillance and recently fell unconscious from a "mysterious loss of blood pressure." 
Prison authorities have said she merely felt dizzy. 
Eugenia Tymoshenko said her mother has serious health problems that have gone untreated. 
"Her continued imprisonment on dubious, politically motivated charges is unacceptable and antithetical to a free and open system," said Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who chaired the hearing. 
Tymoshenko...

...,” Hermitage chief William Browder told The Moscow Times by telephone. Gorokhov contributed to a report Hermitage put out in November, which argued strongly that Magnitsky died after being severely beaten by prison guards in 2009, instead of from health problems as claimed by the authorities, Browder said. Gorokhov said his ouster was an abuse of authority by investigator Boris Kibis, as the law only allows such a move to be made by the family themselves. A spokeswoman at the press office of the...

... international financial center." He added that Moscow, which had a GDP of 11 trillion rubles in 2011 and a projected budget of 1.5 trillion rubles in 2012, was using MIFC as an "important benchmark for the quality of infrastructure, the quality of health care, the quality of education, tourism infrastructure, transport problems and so on."   Some experts maintain that quality-of- life issues are actually the most important facet of MIFC. The head of U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs, Lloyd...

Investigators charged a civilian doctor in the death of Vera Trifonova, a gravely ill businesswoman who died while in pretrial detention in Moscow in April 2010, sparking fury from her family who blame prison officials and investigators for her death. Investigators charged a civilian doctor in the death of Vera Trifonova, a gravely ill businesswoman who died while in pretrial detention in Moscow in April 2010, sparking fury from her family who blame...