 The International Rolliston Award is given to an individual group or organization that has made an outstanding contribution to harm reduction at an international level. The award is named after Sir Humphrey Rolliston, President of the Royal College of Physicians, who chaired the UK Committee, which in the 1920s concluded prescription of heroin or morphine could be regarded as legitimate medical treatment for those who required it. And this was landmark event. I'm very proud to present the 2019 International Rolliston Award to the Andre Rilkoff Foundation. Andre Rilkoff is a grassroots, Andre Rilkoff is a grassroots organization from Moscow focused on promoting humane drug policy. In the five years I have known staff of the Andre Rilkoff Foundation, I've been inspired by their work from their Narkophobia campaign and their visible international fight against the heavy fines imposed under the foreign agents law, to street outreach, making both sterile needles and paralegal advice available, to challenging the Russian ban on opiate substitution treatment through Russian courts and now at the European Court of Human Rights. Their international activism, regional influence and service delivery in the face of incredible odds have redefined resistance in the harm reduction sector. I'd like to introduce Delayna Remneva and Maxim Melishev. Hello. Hola. My name is Lena. My name is Max. We work for the Andre Rilkoff Foundation on the streets of Moscow, Russia. Yesterday when we were trying to put together my speech with English-speaking friends, I asked friends not to make the story sad. One of them immediately responded, you are from Russia. That's already sad. And he's right. Drug policy in Russia is inhuman. People who use drugs have to fight for their life. Too many young people die due to absolutely preventable causes such as AIDS, TB and overdoses. This is very sad. In November 2016 we lost our dear friend and colleague Dalia. She was one of the best of us, committed, knowledgeable, capable, but even she could not prevent her own deadly overdose in Russia, when Nalakson is not available for people on the streets and police is hunting on people who use drugs. But not all stories are so desperate. In 2018 our long-time client and now an outreach worker, Yana, managed to fight off some naughty police officers who misused police power to push her to become a police agent and set up police entrapment against her fellow drug users. Police threatened to take her children and to put her husband to jail. For Yana it was three months of torture, but the Andrei Rilko Foundation team supported and empowered her. Yana decided to act against police. She filled official complaints and won. Police do not disturb her anymore. Such cases empower the whole Andrei Rilko Foundation team. Such cases empower the Andrei Rilko Foundation team and the community of people who use drugs in Russia. Thank you, Yana. The story of Andrei Rilko Foundation is a story for our clients, like Dalia and Yana. It's a story of the community of people who use drugs in Russia. Today the Rolliston Award is to thank and recognize them, not less than to thank and recognize a wonderful team of the Andrei Rilko Foundation. And of course, we are grateful to Harbor Reduction International and the whole international community for your trust and support to our work, especially. It's this very challenging moment when Russia is scaling up its war on drugs efforts. Our organization, in one of many strong grassroots team, we each work together and for the community of people who use drugs in Russia. From heart to heart, we need your support. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.