Putin checks in on Russian pharma progress with Biocad visit

Russian President Vladimir Putin was told on a visit to Biocad, one of the country’s leading biotech companies, that Russia's quality of research and development and manufacturing meant it could “absolutely compete with foreign counterparts” in the pharmaceutical industry.

Those were the words of Dmitry Morozov, Biocad’s chief executive, as his company’s St Petersburg facilities were visited by Mr Putin and the Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

"Russia - a country with a strong scientific heritage - simply has to be among the leading pharmaceutical states"