October 29, 2025 at 19:00 on Liberty cafe Lisbon (Rua da Esperança, 21, Lisboa) there will be a 📖 Returning the Names
🙋 130th Weekly protest
Russia plans to raise taxes to fund the war. A secret division of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
You're watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is September 27, 2:30 PM.
On September 24, The Bell, citing Kommersant (which has since deleted the article), reported on a new forecast from the Russian Ministry of Economy. It noted a greater-than-expected slowdown in the economy and consumer demand. In civilian manufacturing sectors, output has been declining since the beginning of the year, with the exception of oil refining.
thebell.io/minekonomiki-ukhudshilo-prognoz-rossiyskoy-ekonomiki-tsifry-opublikoval-no-srazu-udalil-kommersant
On the same day, The Moscow Times reported that the Russian Ministry of Finance proposed raising the value-added tax to fund defense and security—more specifically, the war in Ukraine. As a reminder, the end consumer ultimately pays this tax.
www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/09/24/minfin-predlozhil-povisit-nds-dlya-finansirovaniya-voini-vopreki-zavereniyam-putina-ne-uvelichivat-nalogovuyu-nagruzku-do2030-goda-a175258
Also on September 24, US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright stated in an interview with Fox News that the US is ready to replace all Russian gas and oil supplies to Europe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxW9Dm8rp5A
On September 25, The Insider, citing Bloomberg, reported that India has asked the US to allow oil supplies from Iran and Venezuela in exchange for reducing imports from Russia, as well as expressing interest in increasing oil and gas imports from the US.
theins.ru/news/285258
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/secret-service-dismantles-telecom-threat-around-un-capable-of-crippling-cell-service-in-nyc.html On September 26, The Insider, citing De Telegraaf, reported the first identified case in the Netherlands of underage recruitment to spy for Russia.
theins.ru/news/285300 That same day, Meduza, citing a report from The Financial Times, reported on the oceanographic vessel Yantar, which belongs to a secret military unit of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Such vessels are equipped with underwater vehicles and other equipment for connecting to cables, intercepting data, and planting explosive devices. Journalists found that in November 2024, the Yantar embarked on a 97-day voyage along critical infrastructure routes off Europe’s Atlantic coast.
meduza.io/amp/feature/2025/09/26/yantar-issledovatelskoe-okeanograficheskoe-sudno-severnogo-flota-rossii-financial-times-rasskazyvaet-kakimi-issledovaniyami-ono-zanimaetsya Also on September 26, The Insider, citing the Ekstra Bladet newspaper, reported that journalists had identified a Russian naval vessel from the Baltic Fleet just 12 kilometers from Langeland Island. Its AIS transponder had been turned off, making it impossible to track via maritime traffic services. Drones were observed over Denmark on the nights of September 23 and 25, but police were unable to shoot them down.
theins.ru/news/285296 Russia is not their property.
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