Russia has become a member of the international community for monitoring the quality and safety of medicines - the European Pharmacopoeia. This was announced by the head of Roszdravnadzor Ramil Khabriev. “The agreement will facilitate the approval procedure for the use of foreign drugs, and will also open the way for domestic manufacturers to the international market,” he specified. We can only hope that the new status will bring practical benefits, and the dummies that are so common today - counterfeits of popular medicines - will really disappear from Russian pharmacies.