Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot161210.32687/0869-866X-2025-33-2-311-317НеопределенThe problem of quality of medications at Russian market (1992–2004). Report III. The policies of (non-)confidenceIgnatievV Gig_vas@mail.ruZatravkinS Nzatravkine@mail.ruVishlenkovaE Aevishlenkova@mail.ruN. A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health, 105064, Moscow, RussiaThe State Budget Institution “The Research Institute of Health Care Organization and Medical Management of the Moscow Health Care Department”, 115088, Moscow, RussiaLudwig-Maximilian University of Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany290420253321005202510052025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>The Ministry of Health Care archives, journal publications, interviews and memoirs testify that in 19922004 issue of medications quality was key one in life of Russian Pharma. The ensuring of medications safety considered not only as part of social policy, but also as rules helping to reformat the wild bazaar into controlled market. The media disputes, departmental justifications, political bills and memoirs give idea of the price of the issue heat of emotions, ambitions, financial losses. Besides, subjecting to who would determine quality (and therefore assess all players in Pharma market) depended on where the center of power would be located in the market. In series of reports, authors present results of historical reconstruction of building material, architects and technologies of raising of Russian controlling and authorizing system and market rules. The third report is devoted to products of (non-) confidence in the control system: on the one hand, exemption trustworthy partners from verification procedures and certification fees and on the other hand, making punitive Pharma police.</p>history of medicinepharmacycontrolling and authorizing systemmedicationqualityистория медициныистория фармацииконтрольно-разрешительная системакачество лекарств[Medicines on probation. Kommersant Den'gi. 2000;36:58. Available at: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/24863?ysclid= lu5x9oh4n9142889257 (in Russian).][Perminova V. N. Pharmbusiness. True story about Russian entrepreneurs. Available at: https://ur-consul.ru/Bibli/Farmbiznyes-Pravdivaya-istoriya-o-rossiyiskikh-pryedprinimatyelyakh.html (in Russian).][Stepanova I. Falsified drugs attack the Russian pharmaceutical market. Meditsinskaya gazeta. 2001;83. Available at: https://www.rusmedserv.com/medgazeta/2001g/83/article_2703.html?ysclid=ltxgac5rnw768202040 (in Russian).][Shirokova I. On guarding the interests of Russian patients. Remedium. 2003;11:70–3 (in Russian).][On the drug market of St. Petersburg “the situation is favourable”. Available at: https://regnum.ru/news/404349?ysclid=lu2scqbiay17934761 (in Russian).][Interview with Vadim Yakunin: “The state should not tighten the rules, but control their fulfilment”. Kommersant. 2003;33:20. Available at: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/366291?ysclid=lv2dzibieh240715666 (in Russian).][Rozhkov R. Means for strengthening panic. Kommersant Den'gi. 2009;10. Available at: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1136114?ysclid=luwhiq1uf0634891398 (in Russian).][Geliakhova P. A., Mashekuasheva M. H. History of falsification of medicines in Russia. Istoricheskaja i social'no-obrazovatel'naja mysl'. 2018;(4/2):40 (in Russian).][Vorobyeva I. “Falsification under the tongue”. Profil'. 11 Feb 2002. Available at: https://profile.ru/archive/falshivka-pod-yazyk-106621/?ysclid=luwr5qeikv254393473 (in Russian).][In Russia the rules of certification of medicines are changing. Available at: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/944101?ysclid=luwqykid5d414248094 (in Russian).][Klevtsova L. New rules of certification of medicines: two points of view. Available at: https://wiselawyer.ru/poleznoe/4099-novye-pravila-sertifikacii-lekarstv-tochki-zreniya?ysclid=lubb06yv7056320649 (in Russian).][Lyubavina E. Struggle with counterfeit medicines postponed. Kommersant. 2002;140. Available at: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/335775 (in Russian).][Taxes more, medicines less. Auditors of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation on the situation on the pharmaceutical market. Remedium. 2003;(4):82–4 (in Russian).][Apshina O. Certification in Russian. The Chemical Journal. 2005;(1):30–2 (in Russian).][Prepyalov A. Falsified medicines on the market of the Russian Federation. Remedium. 2006;(3):6–12 (in Russian).][Interview with A. V. Katlinsky: “Today we know the truth about each package”. Available at: https://vremya.ru/2004/34/16/92621.html?ysclid=luypp3qmz223894309 (in Russian).]