Russian government may introduce state monopoly on drugs production

The Russian Parliament (State Duma) will consider a draft of a new federal law that will establish a state monopoly on the production of drugs in Russia, reports The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent.

To date, the draft of the law has already been designed and registered in the State Duma, while its official consideration and possible approval may take place already in the middle of April of the current year.

According to Maxim Shchepinov, deputy chairman of the Committee on Labor and Veterans Affairs of the State Duma, who became one of the initiators of the new law, its adoption is very important amid the existing Western sanctions against Russia.