 Thank you, Karin. Yeah, just to clarify actually besides working with the original reduction cessation Which is based in Lithuania. I'm for almost 10 years working with This great organization Andrea will go foundation for health and social justice which is based in Russia and Moscow And I'm myself from Russia and live in Moscow. That's why I will present like about our experience here today So just to start like to give you under the Some information about The organization I'm from Our under legal foundation for health and social justice. It's like a small community based local Moscow based organization Which is was established almost 10 years ago in 2009 with a mission to promote and develop human drug based Human drug policies based on tolerance Protection of health dignity and human rights and our main spheres of activities It's like the provision of direct harm reduction services on the streets of most Moscow to people who use drugs also The drug policy related advocacy with a particular focus on the introduction of the OST treatment in Russia Drug policy and human rights focused watchdogging and capacity building of people of the communities of people who use drugs There will be some photos of our work in my presentation So Now just to remind you about the HIV About the situation with HIV epidemic in Russia like to give you the context we work in So the region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It's the only region in the world where the HIV epidemic continues to grow Unfortunately and according to you in AIDS Russia in fact It's the driving force of the HIV epidemic in the region because for example in 2016 it was Responsible for 81 percent of new cases in the region being registered and for several years We have a concentrated epidemic among key populations such as people who use drugs men who have sex with men and sex workers and also we have a generalized epidemic in some parts of the country in some subregions and Steal the main driver like still like 70% of all new HIV cases in Russia associated with the use of the inject injection drugs and still like the main way of HIV transmission is parent role and actually We have more than 1,000,000 220,000 cases being officially registered is on the end of 2017 of HIV infection, but only 35% of those people living with HIV have access to treatment So having such situation with like HIV epidemic in country Unfortunately, the Russian government does not really support the implementation of HIV prevention programs among key effect populations on the federal level and Also, the last global fund HIV grant came to an end at the end of the last year and Not sure if like we ever will receive a new support from the global fund. So Actually, not much funding is available for NGOs working in country Doing the HIV prevention work among key populations and Actually those angels which are still working with their work in The operating the hostile environment of the foreign agent law This law was introduced in 2012 and since then all NGOs which receive foreign funding and Which implement political activities they should be registered as a foreign agents and just like in Russia and With its Soviet Union background to be labeled as a foreign agent is the same like being labeled as a traitor official and publicly and Needless to say that this definition of political activity Could be interpreted and is interpreted very broad So after those law was introduced more than One thousand NGOs they are underwent and expected inspections by prosecution office in 2013 a few of them were like Labeled as a foreign agents a few of them were closed In June 2014 Minister of Justice got the right to declare itself to decide to decide itself which NGOs should be put on the list of foreign agents and also The recommendation was issued to for all governmental structures not to to avoid dealing with those NGOs Which we were put on the list of foreign agents starting from 2016 actually we See the tendency for NGOs working in the sphere of HIV AIDS prevention To being put more often they are into this list. So out of 76 NGOs which were put on the list of foreign agents 10 of them are those working In the field of HIV AIDS prevention in Russia and the last one was Timur Islam of foundation from Tatarstan from Kazan was Included into the list just two weeks ago Yes, so my organization was officially labeled by the Minister of Justice for the foreign agent in June 2016 two years ago and the political activities Which was discriminated to our organization was actually the advocacy for introduction of obvious as producing substitution treatment in Russia This is official. We have like the documents where it's written and Just for you to understand that the law works in such a way that like Angels they should register of themselves as a foreign agent So we need and kind of go and confess that we are for the foreign agent if we don't do this And if it's the minister of justice who put us onto the list it means that like such NGOs Who was not registered by themselves, but was put on the list by the Minister of Justice? They are automatically being considered as the administrative offender and They need to be fined they're finding them on to equivalent to five thousand US dollars Which for NGOs like is a substantial amount of money. So this is what happened to us We were put on the list of the foreign agent by the Minister of Justice and they tried to find us in August 2016 we went to the court and after two consecutive trials To the court against the Minister of Justice after two consecutive trials the court has dismissed the case of an administrative offense and we were not fined And this was the for the first time in the law enforcement practice in Russia on foreign agent law Also, as we don't consider ourselves as a foreign agent and we don't disagree with the decision on the Minister of Justice To put us on this list. So we also tried to challenge this decision in the court as well but unfortunately in 2017 We lost both the district court and the Moscow City Court and they Refused to meet our claims and they left the foundation with the status of the foreign agent So now today we're heading to the European Court on Human Rights with this case So just to to conclude Yes, like we do carry out our work using the foreign funding But it's not because like it's the way we only way we want to do this We applied for the governmental funding in last few years like at least for four times But our applications were never supported and like I'm working now on the one more application Which I'm sure that which will not be supported as well So it's not like us who don't want to receive governmental funding and work like on the governmental money it's it's the government who doesn't want to support our activities in Russia and Unfortunately for a long time HIV prevention among key affected population is not being funded from the public funds in Russia And it seems nothing will change in the nearest future because for example as the new HIV strategy Till 2012 20 which was adopted in 2016. It doesn't support harm reduction services at all And actually till now this status of foreign agent didn't really affect our work So we continue to receive foreign funding and provide harm reduction services for people who use drugs on the streets of Moscow But we are constantly because of this status So we are constantly under a threat of being fined for any minor violation of the foreign agent law and They can find us as many times as they want and actually this could lead to the closure of the organization and You should understand that these lawyers like it's like a hammer hanging on you And you never know when it will fell down on you and this lawyers It's like it's just an instrument of the control of by the government of the independent NGOs Which could be applied at any moment and it's really said that NGOs Providing HIV prevention services to key affected populations in Russia are being considered as a threat by the government Especially taking it into account this situation with HIV epidemic in country which continues to escalate Thank you, and please join our campaign which probably you see chase virus not people