--Roche Holding is losing money in Russia because medicine prices are set in rubles, Chief Executive Severin Schwan tells Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger in an interview.

--The CEO said the company has a responsibility to the patients who are depending on its medicines, and that it has 800 workers in Russia, though no production sites, the newspaper reports.

--Roche said in a statement that about 1% of group sales are generated in Russia.


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