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When should drugmakers go all in and cut off essential medicines to Russia?

  • Ed Silverman

By Ed Silverman March 19, 2022

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A woman walks past a pharmacy in Moscow in 2020. ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images

Just say nyet?

As the war in Ukraine intensifies, several of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies have now joined hundreds of corporations in other industries that are cutting ties to Russia.

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Ed Silverman

Ed Silverman

Pharmalot Columnist, Senior Writer

Ed covers the pharmaceutical industry.

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