Scientific Journal of KubSAU

This article investigates the problem of drug supply in Russia during the financial and economic crisis. One of the priority tasks of the state should be providing the population with quality and affordable medicines. Low competitiveness of Russian drugs and substances, the lack of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry have led to high import-dependent on the Russian pharmaceutical market, which constitutes a threat to the economic security of Russia. On the one hand, the import of drugs and substances is one of the main factors of development and functioning of the pharmaceutical industry in Russia at present, but the existing structure of foreign trade of medicines and pharmaceutical substances testifies to the import of drug dependence. Of particular relevance is considered in this article the issue of import substitution in the pharmaceutical industry in terms of EU and us economic sanctions and financial crisis in Russia. The sharp fall of the ruble led to the destabilization of the Russian economy and consequently to higher prices for medicines and decrease in purchasing power, despite the fact that drugs are commodities of inelastic demand. With the aim of improving the competitiveness of domestic products and increases their market share in the Russian pharmaceutical market necessary to implement a number of economic and legal measures aimed at improving the system of state regulation of import of medicinal products

The problems of pharmaceuticals quality and safety have been investigated as the national security essentially depends on the solving the serious problem in proper time. The state control and guaranties are very important for the provision of the population with safe and qualitative pharmaceuticals. Measures to resist adulterated pharmaceuticals (APh) circulation of legal, economic and right-protective character have been proposed. The proposed mechanism of economic and legal resistance to the APh circulation is based on the interaction of both market and the state monitoring of APh circulation, correspondence of the system of laws to the real state of things and basic tendencies in the consumers` market, neutralization of APh circulation as a measure of priority, search, of the methods of resistance as well as an increase of the interested parties attention to the above mentioned problem. Analysis of import statistics is one of the most widespread, reliable and popular tool for assessing the state of the market and analysis of supplies of imported products. Due to the high import dependence on Russian drug pharmacological market we must take series of measures aimed at improving the system of state regulation of import of medicines