Open Russia’s online forum “Healthcare reform: pro et contra” will take place at 12:00 PM (Moscow time) on November 15, 2014 (Saturday).

You can watch the live stream on khodorkovsky.com, khodorkovsky.ru, and openrussia.org.

Among the forum’s participants are Aleksandr Myasnikov, Aleksandr Vinokurov, Ella Pamfilova, Semen Galperin, David Melik-Guseynov, Nyuta Federmesser, and the others.

Discussion topics:

• Outdated standards, corruption or financing deficiency: what are the main problems of Russian medicine?
• Will private medicine replace the state one?
• What should be the essence of the healthcare reform?

We encourage the forum audience to participate in our discussion by asking questions via:

• Chats on  openrussia.org
• Emails to info@openrussia.org, infoopenrussia@gmail.com, and infoopenrussia@yahoo.com
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/728768030525865/
• Twitter: #медреформа
• Telephone +78800-7752581 ( the call is free of charge for all regions in Russia)

There will be no simultaneous English translation – the event will be broadcast in Russian only.