Day: May 17, 2017

The Ministry of health explained why given the head of the Agency Olga Skvortsova data on HIV incidence at odds with the statistics presented by the head of the Federal scientific and methodological center for prevention and fight against AIDS Vadim Pokrovsky. Press-service of the Ministry quoted by “Interfax”. It is alleged that St. Basil cited the results of monitoring conducted by the Institute of epidemiology and considering the positive laboratory tests for HIV. In turn, Skvortsova spoke about the statistics on the incidence of virus for 2016. On may 15 the head of the AIDS center said the growth in the number of infected at 5.3 percent, and the head of the Ministry of health reported a decrease in the number of new cases by 15 percent in 2016. The health Ministry, “Interfax” specified that statistics on the incidence include people with a confirmed diagnosis, not laboratory tests. Method

Maria Zakharova The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova called anti-democratic Kiev’s decision to ban St. George ribbon on Ukraine. His assessment she shared in Facebook on Tuesday, may 16. According to Zakharov, this step calls into question “the fundamental possibility of any enterprises of Ukraine”. “And how, I wonder, next year Ukraine will celebrate Victory Day and to conduct a March “Immortal regiment”?” — asked the diplomat. After the musical competition “Eurovision”, “the Kiev regime and suffered,” said the representative of the Russian foreign Ministry. She stressed that the Ukrainian authorities these problems are not solved, while “the repainting of tigers money now and then.” On 16 may it became known that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has banned the use of St. George ribbons in the country. For wearing or display this symbol is threatened with the penalty, and in the case of repeated violation —

The body of the fourth victim retrieved by rescuers from the rubble of a residential four-storey house in the Soviet district of Volgograd, partially destroyed by a gas explosion on may 16. On Wednesday, may 17, reports “Interfax”. “From the rubble of a cured body of the girl born in 1990. Thus, the number of victims has risen to four,” — said the Agency interlocutor. Previously reported three dead and 14 injured. On may 17 it was reported that from-under house blockages were retrieved the body of a woman born in 1931. Explosion of household gas in an apartment house on University Avenue in Volgograd occurred on Tuesday afternoon, may 16. In the result of emergency collapsed the entrance, destroyed, according to the revised data, were 12 apartments. The Governor of the Volgograd region Andrey Bocharov, the TV channel “Russia 24” stated that the explosion occurred due to damage to