Russia tops the European ranking of HIV distribution, says a report compiled by the To Be Precise research project organised by an independent charity foundation called Help Needed (Нужна помощь). 57% of the newly HIV infected people in Europe were from Russia in 2020. A total of 1.1 million Russians had HIV in December 2021, according to Rospotrebnadzor, Russia’s Federal Service for Human Wellbeing. The Ministry of Public Health, however, provides a number of 842,000 people with HIV.

The Ministry of Justice proposed to ban defenders who have lawyer status in "unfriendly" countries from working in Russia. to the draft order . drew attention Mediazona Changes are proposed to be made to paragraph 43 of the Administrative Regulations of the Ministry of Justice on maintaining the register of lawyers working in Russia. The ministry also proposed to cancel the lawyer status of those defense lawyers from "unfriendly" countries who are already working in the Russian Federation.

The Novaya Gazeta team, led by chief editor Dmitry Muratov, received the Grand Prix of the French Prize Les Assyses Internationals du Journalisme. They were called the best journalists in 2022, according to the Prize website.

Russian politicians massively start protocols under the article on “discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”. What do Yashin, Roizman and Schlosberg think about this? A week after the start of the war in Ukraine, a federal law entered into force in Russia, thanks to which the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation was replenished with article 20.3.3 - discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

More than 6 million people left Ukraine since the beginning of the war. Such figures are given by the Office of the UN Supreme Commissioner for Refugees (UVKB). Graphics: Office of the UN Supreme Commissioner for Refugees Most of the inhabitants of Ukraine left for Poland (3.3 million people), Romania (900 thousand), Russia (780 thousand), Hungary (580 thousand), Moldova (450 thousand) and Slovakia (400 thousand).

EU raises bets despite the Ukrainian burden "Special Operation" in Ukraine distracted the attention of Russia from Syria. For eleven years, the Kremlin showed there his model for resolving conflicts in the peak of America, holding the Assad regime in power. The model turned out to be untenable. The world in Syria, as it was not and not, the country is torn apart, the population has declined, and the remaining lives in a state of chronic humanitarian disaster.

Russia is in the first place among European countries in terms of the spread of HIV infection. This conclusion was reached by the analysts of the project “to be precise” by the Foundation “Need help”. According to researchers, in 2020, Russia accounted for 57% of new cases of HIV infection in the European region. At the end of 2021, 1.1 million Russians lived with HIV, according to the information of Rospotrebnadzor.

What are the price and weight of a special operation for residents of the Voronezh region, who recently considered themselves "a little Ukrainians" Voronezh. Photo: Ivan Ivanov Exactly at 22:00 on May 9, I worked at my home computer, when suddenly a roar was heard outside the window.

Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned energy corporation, will stop transporting natural gas via the section of its Yamal-Europe pipeline that runs through Poland, says Sergey Kupriyanov, the company’s spokesman. Russia imposed sanctions on the owner of the Polish part of the Yamal pipeline that carries Russian gas to Europe yesterday. "For Gazprom this means a ban on the use of a gas pipeline owned by EuRoPol GAZ to transport Russian gas through Poland," said Kupriyanov.

In Israel, at the 76th year of life, the poet Alexei Tsvetkov died. This was announced by the poet Bakhyt Kenzheev. “Sorrowful news. Just in the Israeli hospital, Alexei Petrovich Tsvetkov, my beloved friend and great poet, died. May the earth be in fluff. Eternal memory, ”Kenzheev wrote. Photo: personal page of Alexei Tsvetkova in social networks From May 2, flowers lay in the hospital due to problems with the lungs.

In Ukraine, at least 3,541 civilians have been killed and 3,785 more injured since the start of the Russian invasion. These data are provided by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Among those killed were 1,300 men, 844 women, 77 girls and 93 boys. The gender of another 1,158 dead adults and 69 children could not be established. At least 1,897 people were killed in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and another 1,949 were injured.

Apple stopped receiving payment for subscriptions and applications in the App Store from the account of the mobile operators "Megafon and Yota. When trying to add a new payment method, a warning appears that mobile payment in Russia is available only for Beeline, MTS and Tele2 subscribers. At the same time, the correspondent of Novaya Gazeta. Europe ”said that it was impossible to pay for purchases on the App Store with the Tele2 operator.

Lithuania is recalling Eitvydas Bayarunas from the post of ambassador to Russia next month. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the relevant draft government decree. The ambassador will cease to perform his duties from June 1. In addition, the Lithuanian authorities decided to close their consulate general in St. Petersburg from June 7. Earlier, the permission for its activities was withdrawn by the Russian authorities.

A network of observatories from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project has obtained the first image of the shadow of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. A record of this appeared on the project website. The black hole is located at a distance of about 27 thousand light years from Earth and is associated with the radio source SgrA A* (Sagittarius A*).

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP), uniting more than 12 thousand Orthodox parishes of Ukraine, intends to hold a representative "collection of believers" "in the near future." According to the Synod of the UOC MP, who met on May 12 in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, chaired by Metropolitan Onufry (Berezovsky), the meeting will discuss ways to solve the problems that arose before the Church as a result of the Russian war in Ukraine and, including the active support of