The Russian Government published 06 February 2015 the Order # 102 (link in Russian) with a list “of certain types of medical devices originating from foreign countries subject to restrictions for state and municipal procurements in Russian Federation”. According to this regulation, the tenders for state procurements will be closed for foreign manufacturers if at least two bids with medical devices from local manufacturers (Russia, Kazakhstan or Belarus) were submitted.

The published order will affect the following groups of medical devices:

• Medical wear.
• Some types of PCR reagent kits for detection of inflectional agents.
• Some types of EIA reagent kits for quantitative and qualitative measurement of immunoglobulins and infection agents.
• Blood clotting reagents.
• Antiseptic and sterile drapes and wipes.
• Some types of reagent kits for hematology analyzers.
• ABO, Rh, Kell systems reagent kits.
• Enzyme reagent kits.
• Nutrient mediums.
• Substrates reagent kits.
• Polymer specimen containers.
• Refrigerators for laboratories.
• Computer tomogram machines 1-64 slices.
• Gamma chambers.
• Some types of X-rays diagnostic complexes.
• ECG machines.
• Holter ECG monitors.
• Glucose analyzers.
• Pneumatic micro motors for dental hand pieces, air-turbine hand pieces.
• Surgical needles.
• Some types of disposable syringes.
• Microsurgical scissors and pincers.
• Dental carbide burs.
• Microsurgical ophthalmic instruments.
• Some types of blood transfusion devices/ containers.
• Gynecological tool sets.
• Implants for ostheosyntesis.
• Non-implantable hearing aids.
• Blood plasma electrophoresis devices.
• Blood coagulation analyzers.
• Bilirubin analyzers and some types of semi-automatic biochemical analyzers.
• Individual blood glucose meters.
• Some types of PCR amplificators.