The Supreme Court of Russia refused to cancel mandatory annual HIV tests for medical workers working in surgery The court announced only the operative part of the ruling, so the reasons for making such a decision are still unknown, RIA Novosti reports. Doctor of Medical Sciences, head of the agency for patient safety and independent medical examination, Alexey Starchenko, filed a lawsuit in court.

We sincerely regret that the game caused such a reaction and apologize to anyone who was offended by it, we were in no way trying to hurt anyone's feelings. The press service of Tinkoff Bank provided an explanation for its apology: We agreed to participate in the Aviasales.ru game to express our negative attitude towards the escalation of anti-Western, nationalist and homophobic rhetoric that we have been seeing in the information space lately.

On May 15, World AIDS Remembrance Day, the annual marathon was held in the amazing city of Kazan. The goals of the race are to show and highlight the problem of the spread of HIV infection, talk about the need for mandatory and regular testing and prevention, and also support HIV-positive people.