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HIV, Hepatitis C positives allowed to adopt children in specific situations – Russian law

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill permitting individuals infected with HIV or Hepatitis C to adopt children in certain circumstances into law.

13:12 30.05.2019

Russian President enacts access of patients’ relatives to hospital emergency rooms

Relatives of hospitalized patients will be allowed to visit them in emergency wards, according to the law signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

11:08 30.05.2019

Exhumation to be conducted in controversial case against Russian hematologist

The Moscow City Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s order for disinterment in a controversial case against well-known hematologist Elena Misyurina over the death of a patient.

18:08 28.05.2019

State Duma passes bill on price control of vital medicines

The State Duma adopted a bill to control the prices of vital and essential medicines in a final third reading on Thursday. Amendments are proposed to the law on drug circulation.

14:29 23.05.2019

Bill on access to hospitals’ emergency rooms adopted by State Duma

The lower house of Russian parliament adopted a bill permitting people to visit their ill family members in hospitals’ emergency wards in a final third reading on Tuesday.

13:28 21.05.2019

Russian MPs pass bill on access to hospitals’ emergency rooms in second reading

The lower house of Russian parliament passed a bill allowing people to visit their family members in hospitals’ emergency wards in the second reading on Thursday.

16:05 16.05.2019

Elderly scientist detained on treason charges placed in hospital following ECHR decision

Viktor Kudryavtsev, a 74-year-old scientist of the Central Research Institute for Engineering Technology (TsNIImash) charged with treason, has been transferred from a detention center to a municipal hospital for health examination following a decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

18:09 13.05.2019

Bill on fines for violations during psychoactive effect medication sales reaches Duma

The Federation Council member Irina Rukavishnikova has submitted a bill on fines for violations in selling certain medical products having psychoactive effect to the State Duma.

15:50 29.04.2019

Russian football star Kokorin expects medical examination in detention center

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow allowed the Zenit club doctor to visit the football player Alexander Kokorin charged with hooliganism in a detention center.

13:55 22.04.2019

Board on disabled persons’ rights to be created under office of Russian ombudsman

A board on the rights of persons with disabilities would be established under the Office of Russian Ombudsman, Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova told RAPSI on Thursday.

14:58 11.04.2019

Russia’s State Duma backs fines for false information in medicine monitoring system

The State Duma adopted in a final third reading on Tuesday a bill on fines for untimely entry or import of false information into the medicinal drugs monitoring system.

12:45 09.04.2019

Russia’s President Putin signs palliative care bill into law

President of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed the palliative care bill into a law.

17:19 06.03.2019

Russia’s lower house of parliament adopts palliative care bill

The State Duma, the lower house of Russian parliament, passed a palliative care bill in a final third reading on Thursday.

12:24 21.02.2019

Russian children’s ombudsman presses palliative care standard approval

Russian children’s rights commissioner Anna Kuznetsova pushed for approval of an effective palliative care standard during the State Duma parliamentary hearings held on Monday in connection with a palliative care bill review.

15:40 11.02.2019

Moscow medic receives suspended sentence for lethal inaction

The Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow has given neurologist Yelena Chugunova a 2-year suspended sentence for failing to provide help to a patient that led to the latter’s death.

18:00 27.12.2018

Moscow court rules to review appeal of Rosneft subsidiaries’ bankruptcy commissioner

The Moscow City Court has ordered review of an appeal against actions of investigators in a criminal case of the former bankruptcy commissioner of several Russia’s Rosneft subsidiaries Oleg Smetanin charged with embezzling more than 300 million rubles ($4.5 million).

17:38 03.12.2018

Embezzlement charges brought against regional health minister

Investigators have charged Kamchatka Region’s Health Minister Tatyana Lemeshko with embezzling 22 million rubles (about $340,000 at the current exchange rate).

09:59 03.10.2018

Bill banning snuff and chewing tobacco reaches Russia’s State Duma

The Rostov Region’s lawmakers have submitted to the lower house of Russian parliament a bill banning the sale of snuff and chewing tobacco.

17:44 09.08.2018

Russian government backs bill on release of seriously ill prisoners

The government of Russia has approved a bill concerning the release of seriously ill convicts.

14:41 06.07.2018

Moscow Region child rights ombudsman supports ban on vape sale to teens

The Moscow Region children’s rights ombudsman Ksenia Mishonova has favored adoption of a bill prohibiting sales of e-cigarettes (vapes) to minors throughout the region.

13:55 17.05.2018