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Fall Plans in Russia: YouTube Block, Travel Ban, and Mobilization.
You are watching news from the weekly rally at the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is July 20, 2:30 PM.
On July 12, Gazeta.ru, citing a source in the presidential administration, reported that YouTube is going to be blocked in Russia this fall. Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the authorities do not plan to do this.
www.gazeta.ru/tech/news/2024/07/12/23447353.shtml
On the same day, Rostelecom warned that due to equipment wear and tear, YouTube speeds would drop.
www.company.rt.ru/press/news/d470885/
Co-founder of the Roskomsvoboda project Sarkis Darbinyan said on Khodorkovsky LIVE that equipment wear does not happen overnight and suggested that the slowdown could be carried out by Roskomnadzor. He and other internet experts recommend installing a VPN now.
www.youtube.com/live/07SfQfU4ktw?t=3402s
Meanwhile, Apple has removed dozens of VPN applications from the Russian AppStore. Sign the petition demanding Apple bring back VPN apps.
chng.it/n4DHZYtykg
On July 3, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported on a bill to confiscate passports from Russian citizens.
rg.ru/2024/07/03/pasport-bez-pomarok.html
The founder of the “Ark” project, Anastasia Burakova, told the Dozhd TV channel about existing cases of intentional passport damage by Russian border guards and arbitrary passport seizure under the pretext of an unwritten rule.
www.youtube.com/live/e4WZYrSxECg?t=48
First Department lawyer Evgeniy Smirnov believes that this bill targets Russians who have left: now it is enough to draw a line with a pen to invalidate the document.
t.me/deptone/10205
According to Olga Romanova, executive director of the "Imprisoned Rus" movement, who shared her insights on The Breakfast Show, the confiscation of an internal Russian passport is a civil execution. A person will not be able to sell an apartment or renew a foreign passport linked to a residence permit. All that remains is to obtain refugee status.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEB1thVJcZo&t=4421s
On July 11, Meduza reported that the Ministry of Internal Affairs had canceled the Russian passports of the founders of the Omsk Civil Association, which covered political persecution in the Omsk region.
meduza.io/news/2024/07/11/osnovateli-omskogo-grazhdanskogo-ob-edineniya-zayavili-chto-mvd-annulirovalo-ih-rossiyskie-pasporta-aktivisty-zhivut-za-granitsey-ih-proekt-ob-yavili-ekstremistskim
On July 18, the "DW in Russian" channel reported that activist Olesya Krivtsova learned about the cancellation of her passport when she was unable to access the State Services website. Olesya hopes that the authorities in Norway, where she lives, will issue her a travel document, although such a practice does not yet exist in Norway.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NETUY9xaruQ
On July 11, Meduza published a report revealing that for the fall conscription, a data exchange system is being developed between the Russian Ministry of Defense and the FSB to ban conscripts from leaving Russia.
meduza.io/feature/2024/07/11/meduza-vyyasnila-kogda-v-rossii-mozhet-poyavitsya-sistema-obmena-dannymi-mezhdu-fsb-i-minoborony-dlya-zapreta-vyezda-iz-strany-muzhchin-s-povestkami
On July 12, advocacy manager in the Conscious Objector Movement Artyom Klyga said in an interview for the Dozhd TV channel that “the Ministry of Defense will definitely close the exit... as soon as the summons is posted in the electronic register.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjyHGkEXdts
On July 11, politician Gennady Gudkov, speaking on the Free Russia Forum channel, said that more than 400 thousand Russians who fled mobilization could not find themselves abroad and returned to Russia. Putin has prepared their forced mobilization, including residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RVv18AyPwc&t=2031s
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