🙋 167th Weekly protest

Sanctions for Navalny. Raids on men in Penza. Driverless cars in Portugal.

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.
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2026/06/15/russia-s-war-of-aggression-against-ukraine-new-eu-sanctions-target-energy-revenues-the-military-industrial-complex-propaganda-and-human-rights-violations/

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/penza-mvd

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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=30rqdk4iZ5I

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/2026/06/08/regime-para-testes-de-conducao-autonoma-entra-em-vigor-no-proximo-mes/473669/

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.
www.theregister.com/2022/11/28/yandex_reorg_geopolitics/

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-soglasoval-sdelku-po-prodazhe-yandeksa-rossiyskim-milliarderam-i-banku-vtb

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