“It was a terrible accident,” recalls Alex Kovkov during a DW interview. The car crash he is referring to left him so badly injured that he could hardly say his name, but the hospital employees refused him treatment. Nobody even offered him a glass of water. […] “We don’t need HIV-infected people in our hospital,” Kovkov was told after informing hospital staff of his condition as a precautionary measure. […] There are no official figures indicating how many Russian homosexuals are currently seeking asylum in the US. But organizations such as Spectrum, Human Rights Watch and Immigration Equality have confirmed...