Altai social activists fighting HIV shut down due to being recognized as a “foreign agent”
The Biysk public organization "Vybor", which was engaged in education in the field of health protection, was closed. The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation had previously entered her into the register of foreign agents, and the court fined her 150,000 rubles, recognizing the distribution of condoms to HIV-positive as “political activity”. There is a real HIV epidemic in the city, Yelena Melnikova, head of Vybor, told Taiga.info.