Consumer Rights Watchdog: 30% of drugs counterfeit in Russia

July 21, 2006

MOSCOW. July 20 (Interfax) – The drug market ought to be regulated
strictly by the state, said Alexander Kalinin, director general of the
Consumer Rights Protection National Foundation.

"The market of drugs, medical substances [raw material used for the
production of medicines] ought to have strict principles, forms and
methods of state regulation," Kalinin said at a press conference
Thursday.