THE MENTAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IN RUSSIA AND THE GLOBAL WEST

This article shows the importance of the pharmaceutical industry as a strategic component of the economy. The lines of influence of the philosophical tradition on the development of pharmacology are explored using examples that are gaining popularity in the West, methods of euthanasia and analysis of prerequisites in the domestic market of Russia, as a reaction to the spread of Western pharmacological colonialism. The implementation of the project to create a domestic radiopharmaceutical radium chloride [223Ra] as a step towards pharmacological sovereignty. The evolution of humanity, the development of technology and culture, has been in many ways shaped by the aspiration to overcome death or postpone its inevitable arrival. In the context of social stratification, the role of a doctor – or, broadly speaking, an individual who has attained mastery over the intricacies of pharmaceutical interactions with the human body – is held in the highest regard across diverse cultural contexts. This underscores the vital importance of pharmacology, a discipline which, along with aircraft engineering, nuclear and space industries, and cybernetics, is of paramount strategic significance to any society or state.