November 1, 2025 at 14:30 on Embassy of Russia (Rua Visconde de Santarém 71, Lisboa) there will be a 🙋 135th Weekly protest
🙋 134th Weekly protest
Belarusians aren't in danger? Russians will be asked for their savings. Comments of our viewers.
You are watching news from the weekly rally outside the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is October 25, 2:30 PM.
On October 23, Poland extradited former Belarusian political prisoner Natalia Podlevska to Lithuania. She has relatives living in Poland, and the day after her deportation a trial was scheduled where she was to defend her right to remain in the country. The reason was the Dublin Agreement.
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Last night received alarming news from a friend from Belarus who lives here, that she had been ordered to leave Portugal within 20 days. She provided AIMA with evidence that she fears persecution in Belarus. Apparently, they found it insufficient.
Let me remind you of the story of Roman Protasevich, one of the administrators of the Nexta Telegram channel, which was a major source of information about the 2020 protests in Belarus and also posted plans for the protesters. Lukashenko, who lost the elections to the coalition led by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, forced the plane carrying Roman from Athens to Vilnius to land while it was flying over Belarus.
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You can imagine what they did to him after reading the horrific stories from the Okrestina pretrial detention center, which many protesters endured. I’ve met Belarusians who still cry when they remember those times.
www.dw.com/ru/uzniki-okrestina-rasskazyvajut-chto-tam-tvorilos-god-nazad/a-58816225
suspilne.media/chernihiv/1144490-bagato-ludej-prihodit-do-punktiv-nezlamnosti-pro-situaciu-u-cernigovi-pisla-obstriliv-rf-energoobektiv-oblasti/ Power was fully restored only on October 24.
suspilne.media/chernihiv/1147476-cernigiv-vze-povnistu-zi-svitlom-premer-ministerka-sviridenko/ On October 20, Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseyev told RBC that, to plug the “hole” in the treasury created by the war, the Finance Ministry—having already spent the National Welfare Fund reserves—is calling on Russians to lend the government their savings.
www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/10/20/zamglavi-minfina-prizval-rossiyan-odolzhit-svoi-sberezheniya-pravitelstvu-a177686 On October 23, the deserter movement “Farewell to Arms” launched a series on its YouTube channel explaining how the Russian army became what it is and how this led to war.
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This week, I reflected on whether direct democracy could work in Russia—something like the Novgorod Veche or Switzerland. It seems like holding a referendum on every issue in a mobile app could work. What do you think? Let me know in the comments and join our anonymous discussion club.
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Alexandra Kravchenko wrote in a comment on our Facebook page: “You are traitors to Russia.” I consider Putin to be Russia’s main traitor. With vast resources, lucrative export contracts, an educated population, and a massive infrastructure inherited from the Soviet Union, he has driven the population into poverty and is now buying the lives of those who see no silver lining amid loan payments and inflation, in order to wage a criminal war of conquest. Under the guise of protecting Russians, he is killing them and selling the country for next to nothing to like-minded usurpers of power in exchange for the illusion of support in the war.
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Russia is not their property.
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