In many ways, the year 2019 was supposed to be a watershed for Russia’s healthcare system. This was the final year of the ambitious six-year program set forth in the May 2012 Executive Orders of the President, to be followed by even more substantial transformations under the new national...

From the day of issuing of Executive Order No.204 of May 7, 2018 of the President of the Russian Federation “On National Goals and Strategic Objectives of the Development of the Russian Federation in the Period till 2024” (hereinafter, the Executive Order No.204) and till the end of 2018,...

An analysis of the consumption of prescription pharmaceuticals and the structure of pharmaceutical care costs has demonstrated that the availability of pharmaceuticals is still low, and that households have to pay for more than half of those costs. It has also been revealed that availability of...

Russian Abstract: В докладе рассматриваются наиболее острые и актуальные проблемы системы здравоохранения России, среди которых выделены вызовы, характерные для...

In the following, we analyze the budget execution of the two main (in terms of size and value for the budget system) public off-budget funds: The Pension Fund of Russia (hereinafter – PFR) and The Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund