May 24, 2025 at 14:30 on Embassy of Russia (Rua Visconde de Santarém 71, Lisboa) there will be a 🙋 112th Weekly protest

🙋 111th Weekly protest

Bulgarian Spies for FSB Sentenced. Stalin Bas-Relief Unveiled in Moscow Metro. Draw Me a Sun, Sister.

You are watching the news from the weekly rally at the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. It’s May 17, 2:30 PM.

On May 12, The Insider reported that six Bulgarian spies hired by the FSB to kidnap investigative journalists Hristo Grozev and Roman Dobrokhotov were sentenced to 5 to 10 years in prison. Some of them claimed they were unaware they were working in Russia's interests.
theins.ru/news/281230

Back in March, The Insider published an article detailing how surveillance on Grozev and Dobrokhotov began following the investigation into Navalny's poisoning in 2020, and how plans for their kidnapping—and possibly murder—were set for 2023.
theins.ru/inv/279015

On May 16, Novaya Gazeta reported, citing a lawyer, that former Moscow municipal deputy Alexei Gorinov—currently serving time for his anti-war stance—was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Gorinov, who is already missing part of a lung, was held in a cold cell despite his condition. "They treat Gorinov well, but there’s no medicine for him. They passed him some medications and prescribed a special diet," the lawyer said.
novayagazeta.ru/articles/2025/05/16/u-alekseia-gorinova-vo-vremia-etapa-vyiavili-priznaki-tuberkuleza-news

On May 15, Deutsche Welle reported that a replica of a bas-relief with Stalin was unveiled in the passage between Taganskaya stations of the Koltsevaya and Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya lines of the Moscow metro. The original had been removed during the construction of the crossing amid de-Stalinization efforts.
www.dw.com/ru/v-moskovskom-metro-otkryli-pamatnik-stalinu/a-72556363

Check out BBC's article for the 80th anniversary of the Great Terror—specifically the period of 1937–1938, known as "Yezhovshchina," which, as the article argues, should be called "Stalinshchina." During that time, the NKVD arrested 1.5 million people, with 1.3 million convicted, 680,000 executed, and 115,000 dying under torture. About 150,000 were released so Soviet propaganda could claim they were not imprisoned "in vain."

After the Great Terror, the USSR introduced harsh anti-labor laws. In the seven years leading up to the war, around 6 million people were imprisoned—57% of them for so-called "crimes" like lateness to work, defective part, or failing to meet mandatory work plans.
www.bbc.com/russian/features-40756213

On May 17, a Russian drone struck a public bus near Bilopilja in the Sumy region. According to the Sumy Regional Military Administration, the attack left 9 dead and 4 wounded.
t.me/Sumy_news_ODA/35607

We’ve just released a new and deeply touching video by Rusya Rassvet in the Make Art Not War section on our YouTube channel. The poem is called Draw Me a Sun, Sister.
youtube.com/shorts/rgoxbhQpHxc

Her collection of anti-war poems is helping raising funds for portable power stations for hospitals and schools in Ukraine through the online exhibition NET VOYNE. The first two batches are already in Zaporizhzhia and Sumy, and funds are being raised for the third, as the need for independent power sources remains critical.
adrl.pt/net-voine/antiwar-poetry/en

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