GREEN ECONOMY AND GREEN TECHNOLOGIES IN RUSSIA: OPPORTUNITIES AND PROSPECTS: SOCIAL MEDICINE IN THE REGIONS THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED POOR SOCIOPOLITICAL SITUATION AND WAYS TO RESOLVE SOME OF THESE DIFFICULTIES S.A. Lipina Center of Green economy of the Council for the Study of Productive Forces of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and the Russian Academy of Science, Head of the Laboratory Institute for Advanced Studies of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration In the paper the problems of greening the economy of Russia, problems of transition to sustainable development, the green economy, which was designed to improve people’s well-being and social justice and to considerably reduce the risks to the environment and its degradation Key words: Green economy, green technology, social medicine, ethnic conflicts, health, regional development. <...> Human potential — the main driving force of social progress. <...> On how society and its social structures are taking steps to ensure adequate guaranteed minimum conditions of human life, the maintenance of physical, mental and social well-being depends not only on the public health of the population, but also to ensure the reproduction and quality of labor resources that form the basis for social and economic growth. <...> Research the concept of public health abroad (outside of Russia) has a long history and is largely completely different category than the Russian academic vocabulary. <...> In the early twentieth century in the health sciences area emerged, called social medicine. <...> In 1902, the German physician A. Grotjahn voiced in his lectures the concept of “social medicine”, which has been designated a top priority concern for public health. <...> Since then, more than a hundred years have passed, but the transformation that took place over the 46 Lipina S.A. Green economy and green technologies in Russia: opportunities and prospects. years in the world community, say that this topic is not lost relevance. <...> In today’s world we are seeing quite a positive trend — is the adoption by many countries and regions, social strategies to ensure alignment between the objectives in the social and economic policies, where the main directions of the state policy is to care for the health of citizens. <...> No coincidence that many scholars and practitioners of one of the most important functions of social medicine called support <...>