Willingness to develop the pharmacy up to the acceptable standards, great enthusiasm and strained efforts brought to significant improvements on those markets. From state only sector pharmacy turned into dynamically privatizing sector leaving less than 50% of all the pharmacies and 6% of the industry in the state ownership. Number of the private pharmacy chains operate on the territory of both countries and they number is constantly growing.
Since 1991 many foreign pharmaceutical companies established their representations in Russia and Ukraine and set up they business there. From very little pharmaceutical import during soviet period it has grown up to 80% of the market during early 90-th.
Further development of the national manufacturers and their favorable price policy played its role in import decrease to 65% lately.
One of the important factors which are slowing down further development is slow increase of the income of the population that clearly reflects on the sales of medicines since major part of people pays full price for them.

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