... programs to boost the numbers. Why is there such a deficit of medical staff? According to doctors and recruitment service providers, there is one big reason: money. Much more lucrative and professionally appealing opportunities are available abroad or at pharmaceutical companies. The federal government is pumping money into state-run hospitals to lure doctors, especially in rural localities where the shortage is most apparent. For instance, doctors under the age of 35 who agree to work for five years...

Espro Group has leased the entire Leshkova office and warehouse complex under construction in the Istra district, Moscow region, to Santens Service, which provides customs clearance and logistics services for pharmaceuticals in Russia, under a 10-year contract. The total area, including office and mezzanine space, is 27,000 square meters. Investment in the project totaled $30 million. The delivery date for the warehouse is the second quarter of 2013. Leshkova...

... bring a scientific approach to resolving industry problems. Skvortsova will be the key person in charge of implementing the recent order by President Vladimir Putin to improve the health-care system over the next six years, and executives of global pharmaceutical companies said they are ready to provide support in bringing those plans to fruition. “The tasks set for the ministry are very ambitious, and we … are ready to cooperate to solve these issues,” said Naira Adamyan, the...

From sweeping new regulations in industries such as pharmaceuticals to the Civil Code revisions and migration amnesty law currently under discussion, Russia's legal environment is constantly changing. The Moscow Times posed four questions by e-mail to four Moscow-based lawyers specializing in different...

... drive to expand the private sector in this former Soviet nation. Media in Uzbekistan cited Uzbek state property committee deputy chairman Saifitdlin Gafarov as saying Tuesday that assets in the oil, gas, energy, metals, agriculture, electronics and pharmaceuticals sectors will be made available for purchase. Privately owned news portal UzReport.com cited government officials as saying one aim was to attract foreign investors to help boost Uzbekistan's technological capacity. Uzbekistan has pursued...

...,” said one woman, who said she works for the city government. “I don't belong to a trade union, so I can't tell you how independent they are,” said one middle-aged man, who wore a yellow baseball cap reading: “Trade Unions of the Pharmaceutical Industry.” The crowd also expressed indifference to slogans broadcast over the loudspeakers, remaining largely unresponsive to exhortations that they chant “glory” to the various official trade unions. The slogans praising...