Day: April 21, 2017

The Supreme court recognized “Jehovah’s Witnesses” extremist organization and banned its activities in the country, reports TASS. The decision States the immediate cessation of the activities of 395 branches of the organization operating on the territory of Russia. In turn, the representative of “Jehovah’s Witnesses” have declared intention to address in operatsionnuyu authority and, if necessary, to reach the ECHR. The decision will take effect in 30 days. Earlier in April, “Jehovah’s Witnesses” have asked the Supreme court to declare them a victim of political repression, however, the claim was not accepted. March 17, the justice Department appealed to the Supreme court with the claim about a ban of the organization in Russia, because during the inspection revealed violations of anti-extremist legislation. A few days later the work of the management centre “witnesses of iegovy” in Russia was suspended. The parent organization made the list of extremist organizations of the

Anna Kuznetsova Presidential Commissioner for children’s rights Anna Kuznetsova said that patients with HIV-infection of children of citizens who deny the existence of this disease must be treated, reports TASS. “A child should be treated. He has the right to be treated. It is necessary to act in the best interests of the child, and any sane person will tell about it,” said Kuznetsova. At the same time, the Ombudsman acted against the compulsory removal of children with HIV, parents with HIV-dissidents. Kuznetsov stressed that each situation has to be solved manually. In October 2015, the Minister of health Veronika Skvortsova warned that the HIV epidemic in Russia gets out of control by 2020, if the coverage of treatment of people with the disease will not be increased. In January 2016 the number of HIV-infected people in Russia exceeded one million people. HIV denialists deny that the human immunodeficiency virus

Sergei Lavrov Blocking in the Organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW) presented a project on incident in the Syrian province of Idlib and the accusations against Damascus to use chemical agents like trying to switch to the idea of regime change in Syria. This opinion, according to TASS, was expressed in Astana the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov. “I think this is a very serious situation because it is now apparent that the false information that chemical weapons were used by the Syrian government, is used in order to move away from the implementation of resolution 2254, which provides for a political settlement with the participation of all Syrian parties, and to switch to a long-cherished idea of regime change”, he said. Lavrov expressed confidence that this can not happen. Thursday, 20 April, the OPCW by a majority of votes rejected the proposal of Russia