The opportunity for patient choice in the health care system in CIS countries was created by the partial destruction of the referral system and the development of paid medical services. The data of two population surveys conducted in Russia in 2009 and 2011 show that patient choice of medical...

This article contains a survey of the current civil laws of Ukraine represented by the Civil Code and the Economic Code. The authors conclude that the Economic Code is fundamentally different from the commercial or business codes of economically developed countries. The Economic Code is...