Consumers Condemn Pervasive Counterfeits
Release of Poll of 1200 Moscow Consumers

19 March 2003

CIPR Press Release 

 Media Coverage

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Official report by the Main Directorate for the Fight against Economic Crimes of the RF Ministry of Internal Affairs on the Ministry’s anti-counterfeiting activities sent to CIPR to address the Consumer Counterfeiting Survey, March 26, 2003. Read

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	CIPR, IRG, KonfOP and the Union of Consumers of Russia are ready to answer questions on the presented survey Consumer Opinions and Attitudes towards Counterfeiting. From left to right: Dmitry Yanin, Chairman of the Board of the International Confederation of Consumer Organizations (KonfOP); Pyotr Shelisch, Chairman of the Union of Consumers of Russia, Peter B. Necarsulmer, President of CIPR, and Chairman and CEO of The PBN Company; Tatiana Vereitinova, Research Director of Interactive Research Group (IRG); and Alexander Shelemekh, Senior Vice President of CIPR, and Vice-President of The PBN Company.
	Representatives of state authorities, consumer and pharmaceutical organizations, rights holders, as well as international and Russian media attend the release of the consumer opinion poll on counterfeiting on 19 March 2003.
	Peter B. Necarsulmer, President of CIPR and Chairman and CEO of The PBN Company, gives a slide presentation of the consumer survey results.
	Journalists and guests study the findings of the consumer opinion poll.
	Nadezhda Nazina, Head of the State Trade Inspection, urges the necessity of consumer rights' protection from counterfeit goods.