Falsified medicines are one of the negative factors in the developing of the pharmaceutical industry.
A number of the violations in a sphere of medicine has increased in Russia. It is connected with a turnover of  falsified and bad quality  medicines. 
If two years ago we talked about unreasonable price increase on medicines, so last time there are more violations  related to a turnover of the counterfeit, bad-quality and falsified medicines.
Journalists appealed to the prosecutors to consider this problem. The companies those sell medicines at low prices need a special approach. At the end of the last year the president of Russia Vladimir Putin signed the law about drug labeling, according to which a marking of all the medicines will become necessary since the 1st of January, 2012. 
 “This measure will allow to close a question about the counterfeits at the drug market”-It was noted by the members of the State Duma. 
Since 2012 all the pharmaceutical manufacturers will have to affix a special identification mark on the packagings and data about these medicines will be sent into the state system of the monitoring. Thus, each person with the help of mobile app or a public scanner will able to check legality of  the medicines.