Dear readers, colleagues!

We are pleased to present you our updated journal on pharmacoeconomics, pharmacoepidemiologics and health technology assessment in Russia under a new more concise and accurate name "Pharmacoeconomics: Theory and Practice"

For the first time the journal became bilingual! The same article is published in every issue in two languages: Russian and English. It contributes not only to increase of accessibility to the readership of the journal abroad, but also becomes a tool to increase the citation index of Russian published original articles in international professional journals and databases.

Reading this introduction, you find yourself on a unique specialized website of the journal "Pharmacoeconomics: Theory and Practice". The journal website is not just an open electronic version of the issue available in every corner of the world which allows to submit your articles or materials for congress for publication in the journal (in case of successful review) in a convenient way, but the present state of the art library of the Russian pharmacoeconomic and pharmacoepidemiologic studies, accumulating most interesting and useful data in this area.

I hope that the journal will be the most comprehensive and objective source of information in the field of pharmacoeconomics in our country for a wide range of specialists of different professions, health managers, specialists, responsible for the development of the drug provision system, employees of scientific and educational institutions in the field of medicine, insurance companies, and representatives of manufacturers of medicines.

To perform it we make every effort using all our scientifically practical developments and many years of professional experience.