[Emerging problems of medical ethics in Russia: medical practice and research].

The problem of maintenance of integrity of medical profession is rarely discussed in Russia. Meanwhile the following pressing challenges emerge within the medical community in this country: tolerant attitude to violations of ethical principles and falsification in research, incompetence and deceit in practical work, wide penetration of alternative medicine and witchery into everyday medical practice, involvement of physicians in advertising and marketing of drugs, even direct selling of them by medical doctors. Medical community should urgently respond to these challenges and develop mechanisms of internal control. This can be accomplished within the framework of associations of physicians and medical professional groups. Without solution of the above problems Russian medicine would never occupy appropriate high position in the society.