The Russian government plans to increase its spending on innovation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday at a meeting of the government commission for high technology and innovation.

On March 2, 2010 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on measures to improve supervisory, regulatory and licensing policies, as well as government services in healthcare and social security.

The Supervisory Council of RUSNANO has approved the corporation’s participation in a project to widen production of measuring-analytical equipment for nanotechnology in material sciences, biology, and medicine.

Synergy Research Group (SynRG), a Russia-based CRO, presented the Russian version of SynRG Orange Paper 2009, the annual analytical report on the clinical trial market in Russia. The report contains hundreds of figures as well as dozens of tables and pictures covering various aspects of the Russian clinical trial market.

Oriola-KD Corporation has  acquired the remaining 25 per cent of the shares
in Foreti Oy, which owns the Moscow-based pharmaceutical retail company OOO
Vitim and the pharmaceutical wholesale company OOO Moron. After the acquisition
Oriola-KD owns 100 per cent of its Russian subsidiaries.