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Charity exhibition NET VOYNE on February 24, 2025 in Lisbon PT: adrl.pt/event/2025-02-24/pt On February 24, we held a charity exhibition NET VOYNE in support of the Energy for Life fundraiser for hospitals and schools in Ukraine. 28 artists provided their arts, and we ourselves provided 2 items. Many of the authors of the arts themselves came to the exhibition. The exhibition was also visited by historian Tamara Eidelman and she signed a poster with her photo at the procession that we organized last year, which is also a part of the exhibition. The Vocal Harmony group played and sang for the guests. At the exhibition, buyers were found for two arts: "Forward to the Past" by photographer Link Art, and The Healing by sculptor Fulvio Capurso. As well as small lots: a master class on creating a print on T-shirts by Marina Diachkova, postcards from Postcards OÜ, wine from the Red Nose bar, and jewelry made by our supporters. In total, we collected 674 euros! All funds were transferred to the account of the fundraiser. At the moment, 40% of the 100,000 euros have been collected for purchasing the portable power stations, which were requested by hospitals and schools in Ukraine. Your donations have already made it possible to purchase and deliver portable power stations to Zaporizhia and Sumy. We need your help: spread information about this exhibition: it continues online, so you and your friends will be able to buy beautiful and memorable things for your home or collection, and also help Ukraine without leaving home. You will also help the artists who were not afraid to speak out against the war and donated from 50% to 100% of the cost of their arts! Please find details on the website of this online exhibition: adrl.pt/net-voine/en #art #painting #sculpture

Sweden denied travel document to Russian volunteer who fought for Ukraine Full text with proofs and links: adrl.pt/event/2026-10-24/en You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is October 24th, 2:30 PM. On October 21, the Ukrainian volunteer network Solidarity Collectives reported that the Swedish Migration Agency refused to issue a new travel document to Alexei Makarov, a Russian political refugee who fought on Ukraine's side. Without a travel document, he is effectively unable to leave Sweden. He was previously denied citizenship, but deportation, fortunately, is not yet on the table. The volunteers call the situation political repression, urging the public to support Makarov and fear further restrictions, including the possible loss of his refugee status. t.me/SolidarityCollectives/3… Journalists from The Insider spoke with Makarov and reviewed the agency's September 7 decision. On February 6, the Swedish Security Police, Säpo, said issuing a travel document would run counter to national security interests. Makarov was barred, under threat of criminal prosecution, from disclosing the basis for that decision. He took the risk and told journalists he had been informed of alleged dangerous activity abroad, without the country being specified. He believes that meant Ukraine, because it is the only country where he has spent an extended period outside Sweden. "Basically, I see this as Swedish intelligence services banning me from continuing the fight against the Russian state," he said. Makarov opposed the Russian regime long before the war. He had been involved in the opposition movement since 2004, left Russia in 2009 because of persecution and received refugee status in Sweden in June 2011. In June 2022, he went to Ukraine. He initially fought as a volunteer, without a contract or pay, in the Ukrainian Armed Forces' 95th Air Assault Brigade, then served in the International Legion and co-founded the Siberian Battalion. In November 2023, Makarov was wounded near Avdiivka, and in February 2024 he helped cover the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the city. He later suffered a more serious wound. theins.ru/news/298571 The Siberian Battalion together with anarchist Makarov, was founded by Vladislav Ammosov, a former GRU officer, and Ildar Dadin, an opposition activist who fell in battle in Ukraine. The unit began forming in spring 2023 at the initiative of the Civic Council, a group of Russian citizens fighting against Putin. The unit operated under the command of Ukraine's Defence Intelligence of Ukraine. verstka.media/s-chem-stalkiv… Former fighters reported conflicts with Ukrainian commanders. According to a March 12 investigation by Verstka, Ammosov left after disagreements with his superiors, and about 20 others left the battalion along with Dadin. Volunteer figters interviewed by journalists described threats when they tried to leave. In one case, commanders refused to confirm the service of Russians seeking asylum in Poland. verstka.media/s-chem-stalkiv… In an interview published in summer 2024, Makarov said he and like-minded activists had tried to create an independent anarchist unit within the Ukrainian army but ran into military bureaucracy and other obstacles. That effort was part of his yearslong struggle against Russian authoritarianism. avtonom.org/news/golos-s-ukr… In October 2024, the Civic Council released a report, "The Veterans Without Motherland," saying that after serving, Russians face problems with documents and legal status, and that returning to Russia is not an option for them. civiccouncil.info/veterany-b… Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist and one another. #documents #army #Sweden

Executions in Iran continue. A lawyer for a political prisoner. Returning the Names in Lisbon. Full text with proofs and links: adrl.pt/event/2026-10-17/en You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is October 17th, 2:30 PM. On October 16, British cellist and influencer Ryan Williams spoke about an Iranian woman named Ghazaleh who is about to be deported from Denmark to Iran, where she will face an execution. facebook.com/61593703697930/… He did not give her last name, details of the case or a date, but asked anyone with liaisons in Denmark to get in touch with musician Cyrus Razavi. instagram.com/cyrus.razavi_ On September 20, the human rights agency HRANA reported that 23-year-old student Najmeh Amini said in an audio message from a prison in Mashhad that she had been sentenced to death on September 16. She asked the U.N. and human rights defenders to review her case and ensure her right to a fair trial. She was tried on charges of "assembly and collusion against national security" and "insulting sacred beliefs and the Imams." en-hrana.org/najmeh-amini-fr… The Supreme Court still must confirm the sentence. Human rights defenders fear it could also set a precedent for executions over opinions expressed online. iranhr.net/en/articles/9095/ On October 13, Amnesty International reported that five participants in the January protests had been executed in Iran over the week from September 30 to October 5. amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2… On October 13, the human rights media outlet End of Law, reminded readers that Kaluga resident Ivan Lyubshin needs money for a lawyer. We also previously reported that he is being tried again after more than five years in a penal colony. He and his father were fired from their jobs because of the case, and legal fees are expensive, so they need help. t.me/endoflaw/3985 A campaign to raise 140,000 rubles has been launched on the mutual aid platform Zaodno, but less than 30 percent has been raised so far. zaodno.org/?id=recREAEeMV0n1… In 2020, Lyubshin was sentenced to five years and two months for comments he made on VKontakte about the explosion near the FSB building in Arkhangelsk. The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized him as a political prisoner. memopzk.org/figurant/lyubshi… On May 1, 2026, while still under post-release supervision after leaving the penal colony, he tried to fly from Minsk to Yerevan to emigrate to France, where he had been approved for a humanitarian visa. He was removed from the flight and charged with evading supervision. ovd.info/express-news/2026/0… This year, Returning the Names event will be held for the 20th time. On the eve of Political Prisoner's Day, participants take turns reading aloud the names of people repressed in the Soviet Union. It was first held in 2007 at the Solovetsky Stone in Moscow to mark the 70th anniversary of the Great Terror. In 2025, the names were read in 150 cities and 50 countries. october29.live/pochemu-29-ok… In Lisbon, it will take place on October 29 at 7 PM at Liberty café (Rua da Esperança, 21). There will be a recording, as well as a broadcast on the event's YouTube channel, @october29_live. Join us! october29.live/2026-lissabon… Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist and one another. #PoliticalPrisoners #DeathPenalty #AmnestyInternational

Dozens killed in Ukraine. Animator sentenced to 4 years in prison. CIS prosecutors cooperate. You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is October 10th, 2:30 PM. On October 8, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said Russian strikes on the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region and the settlement of Bilenke killed 33 people and injured 18. t.me/dsns_telegram/76989 The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office said the strike on Kramatorsk hit around 10 AM. Two buses were at the epicenter, and 30 people were killed. t.me/pgo_gov_ua/40628 The day before, a Russian missile struck a residential building in Pryluky, in the Chernihiv region. The State Emergency Service said 22 people were killed, including five children, and 54 were injured. t.me/dsns_telegram/76933 On October 5, the St. Petersburg courts' joint press service said the Nevsky District Court had sentenced Oleg Kuvaev, creator of the animated series Masyanya, in absentia to four years and one month in a general-regime penal colony and barred him from publishing online for four years. t.me/SPbGS/24600 The charge of publicly calling for actions against Russia's security stemmed from the episode Idoliada, released on YouTube in July 2023. At the end, Masyanya suggests that Russian soldiers surrender through the Ukrainian state-run project I Want to Live. In the court's view, the episode contains calls to desert and disobey orders. youtube.com/watch?v=YrOeCZJ0… In March 2022, Roskomnadzor demanded the removal of a Masyanya episode about the deaths of Ukrainian civilians, calling the information "false." The series' website, mult.ru, was blocked at the request of Russia's Prosecutor General's Office. rbc.ru/technology_and_media/… In December 2023, it became known that Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs had put Kuvaev on its wanted list. verstka.media/olega-kuvaeva-… On September 30, the Coordinating Council of Prosecutors General of the CIS said the prosecutors general of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan signed a cooperation agreement in Kazan "in the area of countering terrorism and extremism." ksgp.org/novosti/v-kazani-pr… Under the published text of the agreement, prosecutors' offices will quickly exchange information on people and organizations the authorities in those countries deem terrorists, extremists and threats to their security. The parties also pledged to seek "effective implementation" of legal cooperation agreements, "primarily in matters of extradition." ksgp.org/wp-content/uploads/… On October 1, the human rights project OVD-Info explained what this means for Russians. The project's lawyers said information could be shared faster, and if Russia has placed someone on an interstate wanted list, that person can be detained in another CIS country and Russian authorities may seek extradition. ovd.info/express-news/2026/1… On September 14, U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights in Russia Mariana Katzarova published a report on the persecution of Russians abroad. According to the report, by mid-2026, Rosfinmonitoring's list of "terrorists and extremists" had 21,541 people on it, nearly a quarter of whom were prosecuted under politically motivated charges. ohchr.org/en/documents/count… Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist and one another. #RussiaUkraineWar #Masyanya #PoliticalPrisoners

The Duma is illegitimate. Iranian lawyer received the Havel Prize. Day of the Portuguese Republic. Full text with proofs and links: adrl.pt/event/2026-10-03/en You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is October 3rd, 2:30 PM. On September 21, RusNews reported, citing Moscow resident Alexander Pavlov, that police shocked him more than 20 times with a stun gun after he tried to photograph a board with information about candidates at a Moscow polling station. The election commission chair refused to let him take pictures, and Pavlov waited for police so he could file a complaint. He said the officers who arrived twisted his arm, unlocked his phone with his finger and deleted some of his data. They then filed a petty hooliganism report against him. He now faces court. t.me/rusnews/91825 On September 28, the Council of the European Union announced sanctions against 10 Russians, including three Supreme Court judges, over the removal of the Yabloko party list from the elections and the persecution of its political figures. consilium.europa.eu/en/press… On September 30, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution declaring that the State Duma was not democratically elected. It urged countries not to cooperate with the Duma and to protect emigrants from transnational repression. pace.coe.int/en/files/36422/… Pity that when Russians protested against Putin's return in 2011, there was no such response. ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F… On September 28, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe announced that Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh had won the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. She has defended activists, journalists and children facing execution in court, and campaigned against the death penalty and mandatory hijab. She was arrested again in April and released on bail in May. Her daughter accepted the award in Strasbourg, and Sotoudeh sent a video message from Tehran: "One day, the sun of freedom will shine upon our country as well." pace.coe.int/en/news/10425/2… Meanwhile, executions in Iran continue. On September 30, Iran's judiciary news agency, Mizan, reported the executions of Ali Hemmati and Majid Nikandish. They were detained in Mashhad in connection with the anti-government protests in January 2026. Authorities link them to the deaths of four security officers. mizanonline.ir/fa/news/49211… On October 5, Portuguese President António José Seguro will deliver his first Republic Day speech. rr.pt/artigo/sao-bento-a-sex… That day, parliament in Lisbon's Palácio de São Bento will be open to the public. parlamento.pt/Paginas/2026/o… In the town of Alpiarça, the Casa dos Patudos house museum is offering free tours. It was the home of José Relvas, who in 1910 proclaimed the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the Portuguese Republic from the balcony of Lisbon City Hall. almeirinense.com/2026/09/30/… After a long break, Rusya Rassvet is delighting you and us with her new video, "About Fruits." amazon.com/dp/B0FFN3QVNM Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist and one another. #PoliticalPrisoners #PACE #IranProtests

Extradition from Kazakhstan to Russia. Results of the fake elections. European Day of Languages. You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is September 26th, 2:30 PM. On September 24, Yulia Yemelyanova, a former volunteer with Navalny's St. Petersburg team, was definitively denied asylum in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is preparing to extradite her and Mansur Movlaev, a Chechen who gave the opposition information about kidnappings in Chechnya. He was denied asylum on September 10. theins.ru/news/297466 According to human rights activists, Kazakhstan is already coordinating his handover with Russia, even though the UN Human Rights Committee has called on Kazakhstan not to extradite him. kaztag.kz/ru/news/prosivshay… Russia accuses Yemelyanova of stealing a taxi driver's phone in 2021, an alleged theft the driver reported only a month later. zona.media/news/2026/02/10/e… She said she was forced to sign a confession and waive her right to a lawyer after authorities threatened to name her younger sister as an accomplice. echofm.online/portret-dnya/p… Movlaev is accused of extortion and financing extremism over a transfer made from his phone while security officers were torturing him. novayagazeta.eu/articles/202… In June, according to the UN special rapporteur, security forces abducted his parents and tortured his brother to pressure him. ohchr.org/sites/default/file… Russia, however, has assured Kazakhstan that Movlaev's case is not tied to his political views and that, quote: "he will not be tortured after extradition." novayagazeta.eu/articles/202… On September 24, Vedomosti reported that the New People party received 58.03% of the vote in Portugal. We could not find official data for United Russia, but its result was clearly much lower. vedomosti.ru/politics/articl… The embassy announced a "record high" turnout of 592 people. portugal.mid.ru/ru/news/v_po… A reminder: during "Noon Against Putin" in 2024, the line stretched half a kilometer, and about 500 people were unable to vote because the polling station closed at the scheduled time. youtube.com/watch?v=PMO9LsEv… At the time, exit polls gave Putin 9%, while the Central Election Commission announced 26%. voteabroad.info/results-2024… The scale of the falsification is clear. I'd like to rimind that what matters is not only who counts the votes, but also who is allowed to take part in elections instead of being killed, jailed or forced out of the country. Today, September 26, marks the 26th European Day of Languages. In 2001, during the European Year of Languages, a celebration of languages was held on this day, and the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe decided to make it an annual event. The goal is to protect Europe's linguistic diversity and expand the range of languages people learn to improve understanding between cultures. coe.int/en/web/portal/26-sep… This year's motto is "Languages Unite!" Petra Bayr, head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, said at the opening of the language festival in Austria: "In a world often marked by division and misunderstanding, the willingness to learn, speak and value other languages fosters mutual respect, empathy and cooperation." coe.int/en/web/portal/-/-lan… There are between 6,000 and 7,000 languages in the world, but 96% of them are spoken by only 4% of people. edl.ecml.at/Home/Thecelebrat… And I remind you of our language-learning tools, a Portuguese news aggregator and a group where, among other things, I collect interesting facts about Portuguese culture. adrl.pt/integration Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist and one another. #HumanRights #Navalny #Chechnya

Sham elections and "Noon for Peace." Mobilization after the "elections." Pavlo Sadokha has died.Full text with proofs and links: adrl.pt/event/2026-09-19/enY…’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is September 19th, 2:30 PM.On September 14, politicians Yulia Navalnaya and Maxim Katz, after a long history of conflict, issued their first joint recommendations for what Katz called "the most disgusting elections" to the State Duma. They are calling on people to come to the polls at noon on September 20 and vote for any party except United Russia on party lists, and for the strongest opponent of that party's candidate in single-member districts.youtube.com/watch?v=OBMJ5sQW… Yabloko party, which was removed from the ballot, is urging voters to back its candidates in districts and spoil the party-list ballot.yabloko.ru/plan-b-2026Maxim Reznik, who came up with the 2024 "Noon Against Putin" campaign, backed "Noon for Peace," an action by Ilya Yashin's party. For his part, he proposed disrupting the spectacle being called elections through protest voting, spoiled ballots or a boycott.echofm.online/documents/zaya… members of the Russian Anti-War Committee said this weekend's procedure cannot be called an election, but advised those who want to take part to look at candidates' positions on the war.gd2026.antiwarcommittee.info… Free Russia Forum called the vote a farce and participation in it a legitimization of the regime.t.me/garrykasparov_official/… Portugal, there will be one polling station, at the embassy, and one day of voting — September 20.t.me/EmbaixadaRusPT/5139On September 18, Bloomberg, based on documents it obtained, reported that Kremlin officials and military enlistment office employees are trying to open foreign accounts, move assets abroad and advising relatives to leave Russia because they fear mobilization after the State Duma elections.bloomberg.com/news/articles/… in June, the Chelyabinsk news site 74.ru reported on a 44-year-old Chelyabinsk resident who received a summons through the Gosuslugi government services portal in late March. In mid-April, he went to the military enlistment office, where a mobilization order was affixed to his military ID, and he was allowed to leave. According to the outlet, residents of the region had been summoned for such inserts for a month to six weeks.74.ru/text/world/2026/06/03/… September 13, Pavlo Sadokha, the longtime head of the Association of Ukrainians in Portugal, died. He was also the vice president of the Ukrainian World Congress for Southern Europe. He was 56.observador.pt/2026/09/14/mor… September 16, the newspaper Correio da Manhã reported that Portuguese prosecutors had opened an investigation into his death. He was found dead in a hotel in the Algarve, where he had traveled for work. His family requested a full autopsy with toxicology tests.cmjornal.pt/mais-cm/especiai… to Jornal de Notícias, police and medical personnel found no signs of a crime. Pavlo had a heart condition, and for now, the leading theory is natural death.jn.pt/nacional/artigo/autori… can understand his family's concern and remind on the special FSB unit involved in poisonings, and the military research institute developing new types of chemical weapons.ru.bellingcat.com/novosti/ru… September 14, the Portuguese Parliament approved a voto of condolence over the death of Pavlo Sadokha.noticiasaominuto.com/pais/30… would like to express our condolences to his family and to those who loved him. He supported us when we were just starting out, and he also supported Belarusians and Iranians. It is sad that he left us so soon.Russia is not their property.Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist and one another.#notowar #mobilization #ukranians

Cyberespionage and AI hacks. A creator of the "Liquidation" is in prison. Gorinov may be poisoned. PT: adrl.pt/event/2026-09-12/pt You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is September 12th, 2:30 PM. On September 10, Anthropic, the creator of the Claude AI models, released a report, "Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026," detailing how bad actors used its models from December 2025 through August 2026. You've probably seen the story about how the company blocked research using its model that could have helped develop biological weapons. But the report goes much further. It covers seven areas: cyberespionage and hacking, propaganda networks and fake media, surveillance systems targeting dissidents, fraud and fake dating app networks, abuses in biological research, weapons development and using other AI models to train their own. The report also says the Russian cyberespionage group GTG-20006 attacked more than 20 organizations. Its most frequent targets were Ukrainian government officials, military personnel and diplomats. The attackers stole a proprietary machine-vision system development kit from a military drone manufacturer, then spent several days analyzing its architecture, the makeup of its production components and their suppliers. When antivirus software detected their trojan, AI agents rewrote it until the software no longer recognized it. anthropic.com/threat-intelli… On September 9, Mediazona reported from the Moscow City Court that Alexander Kondratov, production designer for the popular in Russia TV series "Liquidation," was being held in a Moscow pretrial detention center on treason charges. Kondratov had lived in Kyiv since 2012. According to his lawyer, he is being charged with treason over online posts. zona.media/news/2026/09/09/k… On September 8, SOTAvision reported from the Moscow City Court that former Moscow municipal deputy and now political prisoner Alexei Gorinov complained of nausea and dizziness during a video hearing from a penal colony in Rubtsovsk. The correspondent described them as signs of poisoning. Gorinov said the colony was not registering his requests for medical care and asked the court to help, but the court refused. t.me/sotavisionmedia/63965 Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist and one another. #PoliticalPrisoners #Cybersecurity #series

Is Portugal an enemy of Russia? Germany is closing "Russian House." ECHR dropped cases of Russians. PT: adrl.pt/event/2026-09-05/pt You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is September 5th, 2:30 PM. On August 30, Alexey Chekmarev, press attaché at the Russian Embassy in Portugal, said on CNN 360º that Moscow considers Portugal "one of the most hostile countries in Europe" because of its support for EU sanctions and "comprehensive assistance to the Kyiv regime." cnnportugal.iol.pt/videos/ru… On September 4, Euronews reported that ORANTA, a Ukrainian aid association, had placed a bullet-riddled Ukrainian ambulance from near Kharkiv here, outside the Russian Embassy in Lisbon in response to Chekmarev's remarks. According to the association's head, Roman Grimalyuk, the crew was called in 2022 to help a woman wounded in shelling, and while the medics were inside the house, the vehicle was shot up. Since 2022, ORANTA has sent 31 vehicles to Ukraine, mostly decommissioned ambulances from Portuguese firefighters. pt.euronews.com/my-europe/20… On September 1, Germany formally blamed Russia for an attempted attack on Leipzig Airport. On the night of August 4, a drone carrying explosives was found near Ukrainian cargo planes. Beginning September 18, German authorities will close Russia's Consulate General in Bonn, which was the last remaining, and terminate the agreement on the "Russian House" in Berlin. Entry controls for Russian citizens will also be tightened, but diplomats will not be expelled. zdfheute.de/politik/deutschl… Portugal backed Germany by summoning Russia's ambassador in Portugal. pt.euronews.com/my-europe/20… On September 2, Expresso magazine, citing the Lusa news agency, reported that Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel said the government and Ukraine are searching for Portuguese companies with idle power-generation equipment that could be sent to Ukraine before winter. expresso.pt/internacional/20… On September 3, the European Court of Human Rights said it had struck 879 remaining non-war-related complaints against Russia from its docket in a single decision. The court acknowledged that the complaints may be well-founded, but said the key issues had already been addressed in other cases and that reviewing each complaint would be too costly, especially because Russia is not complying with the court's rulings. hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conve… The human rights group "Team Against Torture" said that for the applicants, this means the court will not rule on the merits of the dismissed complaints. The applicants have essentially been left without a last hope for justice. t.me/no_torture/3988 On September 5, the BBC Russian Service released a report on the fate of asylum seekers in Croatia. The asylum seekers described abuse and even rape. Vladislav Arinichev, labeled a terrorist and extremist by Russian authorities, was denied asylum. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gvNfcz… We reported on his persecution in Russia over his anti-war stance. Now he is also deemed a threat to Croatia's security. adrl.pt/event/2024-07-27/en Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist and one another. #StandWithUkraine #ECHR #PoliticalPrisoners

Mathematical discoveries in prison. Even Remeslo against Putin. A recidivist political prisoner. PT: adrl.pt/event/2026-08-29/pt You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is August 29th, 2:30 PM. On Aug. 21, the Free Azat support group reported that the French journal "Revue de la filière mathématiques" had published an article by political prisoner Azat Miftakhov, "Chui's Conjecture in a Hilbert Space," in its June-August issue. The problem was given to him by Bernard Randé, a French mathematician and the journal's editor-in-chief. Azat worked on it for about four months in prison, without internet access or academic books. t.me/freeazat/3152 In 1971, Charles Chui asked how to arrange N identical charges on a circle so that the field inside the circle would be weakest on average. The answer, "uniformly," seems obvious, but it still has not been proved. arxiv.org/abs/2009.01898 Problems like "where to place points to minimize the field or the error" are used in engineering. The directions used in MRI brain scans are chosen on the same principle. And Zolotarev's 1877 extremal problem became, half a century later, Cauer elliptic filters, which separate the communication channel you need from the others in your phone. mrtrix.readthedocs.io/en/lat… arxiv.org/pdf/1806.05020 On August 27, Meduza, citing lawyer Sergei Badamshin, reported that an examination at the Serbsky Institute had found blogger Ilya Remeslo sane. Earlier, a court upheld his detention in the "war fakes" case, in which he faces up to 10 years in prison. meduza.io/news/2026/08/27/pr… Remeslo, as he acknowledged in several interviews, worked for the presidential administration. The topics were supervised by Volodin and then Kiriyenko. After his statement, a case was opened against Navalny for "defaming a veteran." He also claimed credit for the FBK donations case, in which Navalny received a nine-year sentence. youtube.com/watch?v=dlc7y1aY… echofm.online/programs/break… In February 2022, Remeslo testified against Navalny in a penal colony. When Alexei asked why Ilya had registered a brand bearing Navalny's catchphrase, "Beautiful Russia of the Future," Remeslo said the phrase had become "close" to him. zona.media/online/2022/02/22… In March 2026, Remeslo suddenly published "Five Reasons Why I Stopped Supporting Vladimir Putin" and said Putin "must resign and be put on trial as a war criminal and thief." The next day, he was taken to a psychiatric hospital. t.me/ilya_remeslaw/11121 novayagazeta.eu/articles/202… On Aug. 27, the 7x7 reported that prosecutors had requested seven months in a strict-regime penal colony for political prisoner Ivan Lyubshin on charges of evading administrative supervision after trying to leave Russia. semnasem.org/news/2026/08/27… In his final statement, which Ivan sent us and plans to read at a court hearing that has been postponed for now, he quotes the Constitution: "The recognition, observance and protection of human rights and freedoms is the duty of the state." He writes that his desire to leave arose back in 2019, "when FSB officers beat and tortured me during my arrest in October," and that he became firmer in that resolve after going through the Russian prison system, which he calls "not correctional at all, but punitive." "Russian courts did not acquit me, but they acquitted those who beat me," he concludes. Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist. #FreeAzat #PoliticalPrisoners #FSB

Turbin turned 18 in prison. Binance disclosed crypto donations. The war continues. PT: adrl.pt/event/2026-08-22/pt You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is August 22th, 2:30 PM. On August 17, Novaya Gazeta reported that the Pskov City Court sentenced 63-year-old Lev Shlosberg, deputy chairman of the Yabloko party, to 11 years and one month in a penal colony over a repost and a debate about a ceasefire. novayagazeta.ru/articles/202… On August 21, Vedomosti reported the arrest in Saratov of Nikolai Bondarenko, a former Communist Party deputy in the regional legislature, popular blogger and candidate for the State Duma. Bondarenko said he is accused of displaying "extremist symbols." vedomosti.ru/politics/news/2… On August 19, Radio Liberty reported that Russia's youngest political prisoner, Arseny Turbin, had turned 18. In June 2024, a military court sentenced the 15-year-old schoolboy to five years in a penal colony for being "ready to put up leaflets and fight Putin's propaganda." svoboda.org/a/politzaklyuche… In February, authorities opened a new case against Turbin, this time over "mass riots" in the penal colony. He faces an additional three to eight years in prison. Arseny's mother was fired from her job in June. A support group for Arseny has launched a fundraiser to pay for a lawyer. Donations from Russia can be made through the Zaodno platform, and donations from abroad through PayPal. t.me/free_arseny/101 On August 17, the human rights group First Department reported that the crypto exchange Binance, in response the request of Russia's Investigative Committee, shared data on IT specialist Yuri Belenky. He was detained at Sheremetyevo Airport in September 2025 after arriving from Bulgaria and is accused of "financing terrorism" over crypto transfers for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Azov Regiment. Binance left Russia in 2023 but kept an address on its website for requests from authorities. dept.one/story/binance-russi… In 2022, Reuters reported on the exchange's contacts with Rosfinmonitoring over donations to Navalny. reuters.com/technology/how-c… On August 4, the Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering at the University of Coimbra took the lead on SHIELD-EU, a project to develop a defensive architecture against hybrid threats. Researchers will develop protections against cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns and digital interference using the Internet of Things, Edge AI and cognitive behavioral models. noticias.uc.pt/artigos/inesc… On August 21, Kyiv's State Emergency Service reported that 16 people were killed and 42 wounded in a massive Russian attack overnight on August 20. t.me/dsns_kyiv/3923 That same day, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk region said 15 people were killed and 130 wounded in a Russian drone strike on the Solnechnaya Galereya shopping center in Kryvyi Rih. t.me/dnipropetrovskaODA/3152… Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist. #young #cryptocurrency #UkraineWar

Anti-war stance on fake election. Paying taxes to Russia's detriment. Bacteria with personality. PT: adrl.pt/event/2026-08-15/pt You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is August 15th, 2:30 PM. On August 10, Russia's Supreme Court removed Yabloko's federal list from the State Duma election. Yabloko was the only party that had declared an anti-war stance. The ruling cited donations from Russians who had received money from abroad, posts by others supporting the party on blocked social networks and "copyright violations." yabloko.ru/cat-news/2026/08/… Three days earlier, Rodina party leader Alexei Zhuravlev had sued to cancel the registration of Yabloko's list. m24.ru/news/14082026/930724 For years, Yabloko had tried not to give the authorities a pretext. When Yulia Navalnaya and other Russians who had left the country urged people to vote for Yabloko, the party said such support "could lead to its removal" from the election. Even that did not help. meduza.io/news/2026/08/07/pa… Anton Mikhalchuk, who has been labeled a "foreign agent," sent 1,100 rubles to the author of the denunciation, saying Rodina should be removed from the election under the same logic. threads.com/@anton_mikhalchu… Meanwhile in Pskov, prosecutors asked a court to sentence Yabloko deputy chairman Lev Shlosberg to 12 years and one month in a penal colony for reposting an Echo of Moscow item featuring a Daily Mirror cover and for a debate in which he called for a swift ceasefire. zona.media/news/2026/08/14/l… On August 12, Mediazona reported from Moscow City Court that 60-year-old Oleg Varyukhin had been charged with treason for paying taxes to Ukraine's state budget. According to his lawyer, Yuri Shel, Varyukhin had lived in Ukraine since 1999 and paid taxes as a sole proprietor. In May, he flew to Russia to visit relatives and was detained at the airport. He has no Russian passport, only a Soviet one. zona.media/news/2026/08/12/v… On August 28, former political prisoner Ivan Lyubshin, whom we covered in the previous video, is due back in court as a defendant. adrl.pt/event/2026-08-08/ru A reminder: his support group is raising money for visits and his lawyer's work. storage.googleapis.com/kldsc… On August 11, the University of Porto's Institute for Research and Innovation in Health reported on a joint study by scientists at the University of Porto and the University of Oxford into links between gut and oral bacteria and tendencies toward impulsivity, manipulativeness and lack of empathy. Researchers used psychological scales to assess 200 Portuguese adults for traits such as empathy and anxiety, while also analyzing biological samples. Specific gut and oral bacteria, along with elevated glucose and taurine in the samples, were associated with higher levels of the studied traits. The authors emphasize that this is the first study linking bacteria and psychopathy, and that it does not prove cause-and-effect relationship. But they say the findings could help develop mental health markers and treatments based on nutrition and probiotics. i3s.up.pt/news?v=888 On August 9, The Telegraph reported that cameras on the British Royal Navy's new K3 Scout reconnaissance boats had transmitted data to China. The Defense Ministry and the manufacturer said there was no evidence that military data had leaked. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08… Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist. #AntiWar #taxes #mentalhealth

Ivan Lyubshin is on trial again. Parents saved sons from contract. Pilgrimage in Viana do Castelo. PT: adrl.pt/event/2026-08-08/pt You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is August 8th, 2:30 PM. On July 27, a support group for political prisoner Ivan Lyubshin said prosecutors had sent his case back for further investigation and posted a fundraiser for visits and lawyer's work. storage.googleapis.com/kldsc… On August 7, Ivan under pressure from the security service resigned from his job at the factory where he had recently been hired. His support group reported pressure on his manager and demands that she fabricate a workplace violation, but manager refused. t.me/ivanlybshinsupport/13 According to Ivan, today is his last day free. On May 1, Kaluga resident Ivan Lyubshin was removed from a flight at Minsk airport while en route to Yerevan to pick up his approved French humanitarian visa. Border guards handed him over to Belarusian security forces, who took him to Russia. zona.media/news/2026/05/04/l… In 2020, a military court sentenced him to five years and two months in a penal colony for two comments on the social media platform VKontakte under news posts about anarchist Mikhail Zhlobitsky blowing himself up outside the FSB building in 2018 to protest the torture of left-wing activists. He was not accused of any incitement or acts, and he deleted the comments before the case was opened. memopzk.org/figurant/lyubshi… On July 31, the online news outlet 72.ru reported that relatives of Kirill Ponomarev, Lavrenty Kuznetsov and Umed Khamdamov had secured their sons' return to conscript status. 72.ru/text/criminal/2026/07/… In January, journalists reported that the young men had been offered transfers to another unit where "service was easier." They wrote transfer requests using a template that included a clause about a future contract, but they were never shown the contract itself. About 2 million rubles was deposited on each of their bank cards. The parents spent more than six months trying to get their children returned to conscript service and paid the money back to the state. 72.ru/text/incidents/2026/01… From August 15 to 23, the city of Viana do Castelo hosts the Romaria de Nossa Senhora da Agonia. It is a pilgrimage to a local shrine that grew into a street festival. festasdagonia.com/en/program… The festival is dedicated to the Virgin Mary in her local invocation as "Our Lady of Sorrows" the patron saint of fishermen. It grew out of an 18th-century practice in which fishermen donated part of the proceeds from their fish catch to her. altominho.pt/pt/viver/santua… The program includes the Mordomia procession on August 19, when women walk through the city in folk costumes wearing family gold that can weigh several kilograms. dagonia.pt/blogs/programa-fe… On August 20, a procession will carry the image of the Virgin Mary on a decorated fishing boat out to sea and along the Lima River. On August 22, a procession with floats and scenes from village life will take place, with more than 3,000 people participating. festasdagonia.com/en/a-romar… On the night of August 19 to 20, residents of the Ribeira neighborhood will cover the six streets the procession will follow with carpets of dyed salt. radioaltominho.pt/noticias/r… On August 3, the Tor Project announced Snowflake Volunteer, an app that shares part of your internet connection with people in countries where even Tor is blocked. f-droid.org/en/packages/io.b… It was developed by the Portuguese studio Bloco. The code is open source and available on GitHub. blog.torproject.org/snowflak… I'll give the floor to the person who wanted to speak at our protest. Good Evening. My name is Haruna R. A. Fala Junior. I'm here speaking on a behalf of peace. I'm supporting peace in a world, I'm supporting global peace. The world needs more peace and less war. We have to compe together and arrange to set ourself to live in harmony. We have to live among each other, we have to live in a peace for environment, for the development of our future and our kids. Thank you! youtube.com/shorts/HC_JHOsWt… Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist. #PoliticalPrisoners #AntiWar #CatholicPilgrimage

Russia against its tech geniuses. Rights defenders labeled extremists. Catching a spy in Portugal. PT: adrl.pt/event/2026-08-01/pt You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is August 1st, 2:30 PM. On July 29, Interfax reported that the FSB had charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov in absentia with aiding terrorist activity. According to the FSB, Telegram's administrators are not removing channels and bots used to plan terrorist attacks and sabotage in Russia. interfax.ru/russia/1106228 On July 22, Mediazona reported that prosecutors in Orenburg Regional Court had sought 14 to 15-year penal colony sentences for 10 people accused of organizing mass unrest in the city of Baymak in 2024. zona.media/news/2026/07/22/b… At the time, thousands of people came to the courthouse to support environmentalist Fail Alsynov, who was sentenced to four years for a speech at a village gathering. zona.media/news/2024/01/17/p… On July 28, Meduza reported that Russian authorities had designated the human rights group SK SOS, which helps LGBT people and victims of domestic violence in the North Caucasus, an "extremist organization." They did not notify the group of the hearing and sent the ruling to its director by mail a month later. meduza.io/news/2026/07/28/kr… On July 29, radio Observador released a podcast about how, in early 2016, the CIA and FBI proposed that Portuguese authorities lure their own intelligence officer, Frederico Carvalhão Gil of the SIS, into a trap. The case had stalled, and prosecutors were invited to Langley, where officials proposed sending a fictitious buyer of secrets to him. The Portuguese refused: under the law, that would be entrapment, and the case would fall apart in court. observador.pt/2026/07/29/ope… Carvalhão Gil was arrested on May 21, 2016, in a cafe in Rome along with SVR officer Sergei Pozdnyakov. In February 2018, a Lisbon court sentenced him to seven years and four months in prison for espionage and corruption. jn.pt/lusa/artigo/espiao-fre… Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist. #Espionage #HumanRights #PavelDurov

New laws against Russians abroad. Farmers will pay for the war. Are there clouds on Mars? PT: adrl.pt/event/2026-07-25/pt You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is July 25th, 2:30 PM. On July 22, Russia's State Duma passed two bills in their second and third readings, and on July 24 the Federation Council approved them. The bills impose temporary restrictions on Russians abroad who fail to comply with court-ordered penalties. duma.gov.ru/news/63905/ The measures apply to people convicted in court as well as those punished under six articles of the Code of Administrative Offenses. As usual, the articles include discrediting the army, calling for sanctions and violating the foreign agents law. The measures include freezing money and property, denying loans and electronic government services, restricting driver's licenses and banning people from registering as sole proprietors, using notarial services or obtaining digital signatures. garant.ru/news/2173469/ The Justice Ministry decides whether to impose the restrictions, and they are lifted once the person serves the sentence or returns to Russia. Come back to Russia to serve your sentence—with access to government services. interfax.ru/russia/1104767 On July 20, Kommersant reported that Russian farmers may soon be sold diesel fuel that the law prohibits them from putting in their machinery. According to the journalists, the Agriculture Ministry sent a letter to the regions on July 17 asking whether farmers needed diesel fuel with a sulfur content of 0.3 to 0.9 percent, as well as heating oil used in boilers. Standard diesel contains up to 10 milligrams of sulfur per kilogram; this fuel has almost 1,000 times as much. An old Soviet tractor might tolerate a fivefold increase in sulfur, but a modern combine harvester's engine life would be cut in half, according to Kristina Romanovskaya, head of the Lazarevskoye farm. In other words, the cost of the Russian authorities' desire to continue the war will once again be paid by someone other than the Russian authorities. kommersant.ru/doc/8830824 The reason for the measures is a fuel shortage after Ukrainian armed forces struck Russian oil refineries. On July 8, the government expanded its ban on diesel fuel exports to include producers. government.ru/news/59261/ On July 3, the scientific journal Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets published an article saying Portuguese astrophysicists Francisco Brasil and Pedro Machado of the University of Lisbon, working with an international research team, had for the first time measured both the height and speed of atmospheric waves on Mars using images from a single camera. Atmospheric waves are oscillations in the air, visible as ripples in clouds. Using images from the HRSC stereo camera aboard Europe's Mars Express probe, they compiled a catalog of 146 wave packets and determined the cloud height and wave speed for 11 of them, with speeds ranging from 0.4 to 6.2 meters per second. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.… On July 21, Francisco Brasil explained to Euronews why that matters. The Martian atmosphere is thin and provides little drag, so a lander descends toward the surface almost as if in free fall. To land equipment—and especially people—scientists need to understand how the atmosphere is layered. euronews.com/next/2026/07/21… Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist. #RussiaUkraineWar #PoliticalPrisoners #Astronomy

Nadezhdin is barred from running. The Moskalyovs have been granted asylum. Influence on US elections. PT: adrl.pt/event/2026-07-18/pt You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is July 18th, 2:30 PM. On July 17, the Dolgoprudny Court fined politician Boris Nadezhdin 1,000 rubles for "displaying extremist symbols." The case stemmed from a photo of Navalny that appeared for about 10 seconds in a livestream by politician Elvira Vikhareva, a link to which Nadezhdin posted on his Telegram channel in 2023. Until his detention, he was actively collecting signatures to run in September elections for the State Duma and the Moscow Regional Duma, but the charge on which he was convicted bars him from seeking office this year. An ambulance was called for him during the trial after his blood pressure rose to 200/120. "I'll just die here, you understand—I'll drop dead if I have to sit in a stuffy cell. And I won't be able to pay the fine, unfortunately: all my accounts have been frozen," the politician said at the court hearing. He plans to appeal the ruling. zona.media/news/2026/07/17/n… In February 2024, news outlets reported on the long lines of people waiting to sign in support of Nadezhdin's nomination for president of Russia. meduza.io/feature/2024/01/22… And some good news: On July 17, the anti-war initiative inTransit said on its Telegram channel that Alexei and Masha Moskalyov had been granted political asylum in France. inTransit specialists handled their case starting with their humanitarian visa application. The family waited about 10 months for a decision under Germany's humanitarian program and, after receiving no response, applied for a French visa in January 2026. It was approved in March, and the Moskalyovs arrived in France in late March and applied for asylum. Their interview took place June 9, and they received a positive decision July 17. t.me/trans_it/256 And more good news: we've improved our aggregator for job openings in Portugal and remote work, and it now finds even more vacancies. The link is in the section on assistance with adaptation and integration in Portugal on our website: adrl.pt/integration On July 16, the White House released election-related documents from the CIA, FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, compiled by the Government Transparency Task Force. The released files describe vulnerabilities in election databases, China's collection of data on more than 200 million voters, a coming review of a case involving paid voter registrations and the discovery of more than 250,000 noncitizens on voter rolls. whitehouse.gov/election-inte… In September 2024, the threat research company Graphika published a report on Operation Spamouflage. Graphika found several Chinese state-linked accounts on the social media platforms X and TikTok posing as American voters, smearing candidates from both parties and inflaming divisive social issues. The goal, according to Graphika, was to portray the United States as a declining power with weak leaders and a collapsing system. graphika.com/reports/the-ame… Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist. #Navalny #PoliticalAsylum #Disinformation

Attacks on European infrastructure. Raid on young people in Moscow. Proteins essential to immunity. PT: adrl.pt/event/2026-07-11/pt You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is July 11th, 2:30 PM. On June 30, Portugal's National Cybersecurity Center, in Bulletin No. 2/2026, documented attacks on critical infrastructure in Europe: In Poland, cyber sabotage targeting the power grid nearly caused a widespread blackout and affected an automated water-treatment control system, while the compromise of the open-source tool Trivy provided an entry point into the European Commission's AWS cloud, leading to the leak of several gigabytes of data. Other threats included active exploitation of a new Microsoft Office vulnerability by the hacking group APT28, also known as Fancy Bear and believed to be linked to Russian military intelligence, as well as two major data breaches in France involving 45 million and 11.7 million records. The bulletin also noted that on June 12, the United States temporarily blocked other countries' access to Anthropic's most advanced AI models—Fable 5 and Mythos 5—on national security grounds. cncs.gov.pt/docs/boletim-obs… On July 7, the human rights group OVD-Info, citing reports by Bereg, Mediazona and Ostorozhno Novosti, said riot police carried out a raid late July 3 in Moscow's Kitay-Gorod district, violently detaining several dozen young people, mostly teenagers aged 14 to 17, who had been out walking. Meduza reported that police singled people out for their unusual appearance: Men with long hair or unusual clothing, for example, were forced into police vans. Detainees said they were beaten, humiliated and shocked with stun guns inside the vans. At the police station, officers merely recorded their personal information and photographed them, without filing any reports. The official reason for the raid is unknown: At the scene, security officers said they were conducting a "document check." ovd.info/express-news/2026/0… meduza.io/feature/2026/07/06… On July 4, the human rights group Prison Lawyer reported that Ariadna Litvinova, a Russian citizen detained in Turkey, had been deported to Russia. In Russia, she faces prosecution over inscriptions she wrote on February 24, 2025, on street advertising structures featuring Russian military personnel: "MURDERERS! FREEDOM FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS." t.me/prisonlawyers/229 On July 10, the University of Porto's Institute for Research and Innovation in Health published a news release saying scientists had shown in animals that the proteins ZFP36L1 and ZFP36L2 are essential for the function of stromal cells in the thymus, the gland that "trains" and selects T-lymphocytes, one of the body's main lines of defense. Levels of these proteins naturally decline with age. When the proteins were removed, the thymus aged prematurely and stopped producing T-cells, pointing to a role for the proteins in immune aging. The authors hope the findings will pave the way for therapies to counter weakening immunity. noticias.up.pt/2026/07/10/es… Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist. #databreach #HumanRights #MedicalResearch

Shadow fleet is spying. The war continues. An operation against scam centers in Thailand. PT: adrl.pt/event/2026-07-04/pt You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is July 4th, 2:30 PM. On July 2, the International Institute for Strategic Studies published a report saying Russia may have launched surveillance drones from "shadow fleet" tankers over military and nuclear sites in 13 European countries from August 2024 to February 2026, including sites housing U.S. B61 bombs and France's Île Longue submarine base. The finding is based on Russian vessels being nearby when the drones were spotted. The report notes that the EU's flagship counter-drone program, EDDI, will be able to intercept drones only once they are already in the air over Europe; its mandate does not extend to a launch ship in international waters. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07… iiss.org/research-paper/2026… On July 2, The New York Times, citing an unnamed senior White House official, reported that U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and presidential adviser Jared Kushner were prepared to travel to Russia and Ukraine if something new emerged to discuss, but would not go "for a photo op." nytimes.com/2026/07/02/us/po… On the night of July 2, Russian forces launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine. Kyiv bore the brunt: 30 people were killed and about 100 were wounded. bbc.com/russian/articles/c24… On the night of July 4, a KAB guided aerial bomb struck Sumy, with a high-rise apartment building at the blast's epicenter. Four people were killed and 33 wounded. The online outlet TSN published searing eyewitness accounts. tsn.ua/ru/ukrayina/babushkin… In Russia, attacks from Ukraine killed two people: a woman in a car in Belgorod, struck by shrapnel, and a man in a drone attack in a village in the Bryansk region. themoscowtimes.com/2026/07/0… On June 3, Fox News, citing a statement from Meta, reported that Meta, working with the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and Thai police, and with support from Microsoft, Coinbase and Starlink, carried out a two-week operation against scam centers in Southeast Asia. The scammers conned people out of money through fake romances, bogus cryptocurrency investments and other schemes. They also used "pig-butchering," a method in which victims are "fattened up" over time as scammers win their trust and let them make money before fleecing them. In the operation, Thai police arrested 63 people, and the platforms removed about 1.4 million accounts. foxnews.com/us/meta-leads-la… Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist. #shadowfleet #ukrainewar #scamalert

Earthquake in Venezuela. Countering transnational repression. Lawyers under attack. PT: adrl.pt/event/2026-06-27/pt You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is June 27th, 2:30 PM. On the evening of June 24, two earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 struck Venezuela. Parts of Caracas and surrounding areas were devastated. The second tremor was the strongest to hit Venezuela in more than a century. As of June 26, authorities had confirmed 920 deaths and 3,360 injuries, but more than 50,000 people were missing and crews were still clearing rubble. Using a mathematical model, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the possible death toll at between 10,000 and 100,000. Residents are doing much of the rescue work themselves, pulling people from the rubble with their bare hands because there are not enough cranes or equipment. Mexico, El Salvador, the United States and other countries have already sent aid. reuters.com/world/americas/r… Portugal sent a civil protection team of about 50 people: rescuers, INEM medics and military personnel from the GNR Emergency Assistance and Support Unit with experience in international missions. portugal.gov.pt/gc25/comunic… In Lisbon, the Venezuelan restaurant La Calle 58, at Calçada da Tapada 15, is accepting aid. We contacted the restaurant, and staff said they need medicine, disposable gloves, masks, first aid kits, bandages, disinfectants, baby products, hygiene products and nonperishable food. (❗ Check their work hours and contact them before buying and bringing anything). instagram.com/lacalle58.pt/ On June 16, the European Parliament adopted a nonbinding resolution on countering transnational repression—the persecution of critics abroad by authoritarian regimes, including within the EU. The document names Russia, China, Iran and Belarus as the main perpetrators. It singles out Russia as one of the world's most aggressive actors and as responsible for the largest number of documented cases in the EU, citing assassinations and attempted assassinations, recruitment via Telegram, proxies such as Wagner and the abuse of Interpol "red notices." China is described as waging the world's most systematic campaign, with overseas "police stations" and pressure on academia. The resolution also notes operations by Iranian intelligence services and the IRGC, as well as the outsourcing of attacks to organized crime groups. europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc… On June 20, the "Disclosedlive" YouTube channel broadcast a roundtable of Russian lawyers titled "Lawyers Under Attack: Questions Facing the Profession." They said the justice system is in a systemic crisis, citing a 99.64 percent conviction rate in 2024 and dependence of judges. Most judges come from prosecutors' offices, investigative agencies or court staffs, they said. Participants examined cases in which they had served as defense attorneys as examples of fabrication: confessions extracted under torture, false expert reports, closed-door trials with secret witnesses and the persecution of lawyers themselves, including disbarment. The result was a draft resolution with three demands: not to introduce a Justice Ministry "lawyer monopoly," to establish criminal liability for obstructing attorneys' work and to create a real mechanism to hold investigators, prosecutors, experts and judges accountable for fabricating cases. youtube.com/watch?v=rG8iogtH… Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist. #VenezuelaEarthquake #TransnationalRepression #RuleOfLaw

Sanctions for Navalny. Raids on men in Penza. Driverless cars in Portugal. PT: adrl.pt/event/2026-06-20/pt You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is June 20th, 2:30 PM. On June 15, the EU Council adopted a new sanctions package. For the first time, the list sets apart judges and prosecutors, law enforcement officers, FSB officials and medical personnel involved in the persecution, poisoning and death of Alexei Navalny. It also includes a company developing a facial-recognition system whose technology authorities used to identify and detain protesters. Propagandists, the "shadow fleet" and manufacturers and suppliers of drones and military equipment were also targeted. consilium.europa.eu/en/press… On June 18 and 19, the human rights groups Get Lost and the Conscientious Objectors Movement, as well as the outlets Govorit NeMoskva and Mediazona, reported mass raids targeting men in Penza, Kamenka and Kuznetsk. Residents said the detainees were forced to sign contracts with the Defense Ministry to be sent to fight in the war against Ukraine. As usual, the authorities denied everything: the regional Interior Ministry called reports of "alleged mass raids" false, but acknowledged that security forces "assisted" in searching for men who had received Russian citizenship but had not registered for military service. zona.media/news/2026/06/19/p… On March 25, The Insider's YouTube channel published an interview with Vladimir Bernhardt, a Cossack from the Kuban region. A former police officer, he was mobilized in 2022. For more than two years, he served as a medic, evacuating the wounded from the front line. While recovering the bodies of Russians and Ukrainians, he realized he was fighting on the aggressor's side and started the anti-war channels "Cossack's Diary," where he criticized Putin and exposed corruption in the army. He described how military police beat him and held him in a pit for it, and said he survived only because his commanders were in a good mood and agreed to spare him in exchange for deleting the channels. He first went AWOL after being denied leave to help his son, who had cancer, get treatment. When they decided to send him on an assault mission, he chose to desert. He survived in the forests for nearly 10 months, looking for a way to cross the border. He was caught and managed to escape again. Now, through his project "Hard Sign," he helps to get out of the war others who have realized they were wrong. youtube.com/watch?v=30rqdk4i… On June 8, a law was published authorizing autonomous-driving trials in Portugal. Starting in July, universities, laboratories and companies will be able to test driverless vehicles on public roads. The goal is to provide mobility to people who cannot drive themselves for health or other reasons. rr.pt/noticia/pais/2026/06/0… Russia had been among the global leaders: Yandex's self-driving cars were driving on Moscow streets more than five years ago, and many people saw them firsthand. After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sanctions and geopolitics tore the company apart: Yandex founder Arkady Volozh condemned the "barbaric invasion" and stepped down, and the international division split off. theregister.com/2022/11/28/y… According to Meduza and The Bell, the Russian business was sold for nearly six times less than its pre-invasion valuation, and Putin personally approved the list of future owners. thebell.io/vladimir-putin-so… Russia is not their property. Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist. #Navalny #RussiaUkraineWar #SelfDrivingCars