July 5, 2025 at 14:30 on Embassy of Russia (Rua Visconde de Santarém 71, Lisboa) there will be a 🙋 118th Weekly protest
Founder of "Beauty Army" is in prison. Fewer are willing to be the decoration. What to be proud of?
Founder of "Beauty Army" is in prison. Fewer are willing to be the decoration. What to be proud of?
You're watching the news from the weekly rally at the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is June 21, 2:30 PM.
On June 20, 30-year-old volunteer Nadezhda Rossinskaya, known as Nadin Geisler, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for treason and aiding terrorism. At the start of the full-scale war, the volunteer group "Beauty Army," which she founded, actively supported Ukrainian refugees in the occupied territories of Ukraine and in Belgorod. They provided monthly supplies of food and hygiene items, clothing, medical consultations, hospital medicine, animal feed, and assistance with evacuation. These are responsibilities that should fall to the occupying state—but even members of the Belgorod Red Cross, which is state-funded, ended up relying on them.
"My desire to help comes from valuing these people and their lives, and the fact that they are suffering unjustly," Nadezhda said in her final statement in court. The case was held partly behind closed doors, so information is scarce. The evidence reportedly includes the testimony of her sister—who was taken from a psychiatric hospital—a livestream from Ukraine that no one has seen, and posts in social media that Nadezhda denies owning. Read more in the article by Mediazona.zona.media/article/2025/06/20/nadin
Seda Suleimanova, a young woman from Grozny who was kidnapped by her own relatives—and likely killed—after she moved to St. Petersburg to be with her fiancé, has now been finally officially declared missing.
meduza.io/news/2025/06/16/pohischennuyu-chechenku-sedu-suleymanovu-ob-yavili-v-rozysk-kak-bez-vesti-propavshuyu
Read Meduza’s interview with her friend Lena Patyaeva, who launched the "Where is Seda?" campaign. They collected 3.5 times more signatures than originally planned.
meduza.io/feature/2025/05/22/gde-seda
On June 20, Verstka reported that the nomination period for upcoming elections has begun across Russian regions—but there aren't enough willing candidates to maintain the illusion of real politics.
verstka.media/slishkom-dorogaya-czena-za-dekoracziyu-politiki-pochemu-v-rossii-nikto-ne-hochet-idti-v-deputaty
And some good news: we congratulate Sergei Tikhanovsky and 13 other political prisoners on their release from a Belarusian prison.
meduza.io/news/2025/06/21/belorusskogo-oppozitsionera-sergeya-tihanovskogo-osvobodili-iz-tyurmy
That same night in Odesa, two people were killed and 17 injured; residential buildings in the city’s historic center were destroyed.
www.bbc.com/russian/articles/c1lj5j32jpvo
In her new video, Rusya Rassvet reminds us how propaganda operates, what we are told to be proud of in Russia, and what we should strive for instead of hatred and war.
Watch and listen to the new poem: "I Am Russian, or Hybrid Propaganda."www.youtube.com/watch?v=sryikU9oYyM And remain human. If you want change in Russia, make your contribution.
Founder of "Beauty Army" is in prison. Fewer are willing to be the decoration. What to be proud of?
You're watching the news from the weekly rally at the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is June 21, 2:30 PM.
On June 20, 30-year-old volunteer Nadezhda Rossinskaya, known as Nadin Geisler, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for treason and aiding terrorism. At the start of the full-scale war, the volunteer group "Beauty Army," which she founded, actively supported Ukrainian refugees in the occupied territories of Ukraine and in Belgorod. They provided monthly supplies of food and hygiene items, clothing, medical consultations, hospital medicine, animal feed, and assistance with evacuation. These are responsibilities that should fall to the occupying state—but even members of the Belgorod Red Cross, which is state-funded, ended up relying on them.
"My desire to help comes from valuing these people and their lives, and the fact that they are suffering unjustly," Nadezhda said in her final statement in court. The case was held partly behind closed doors, so information is scarce. The evidence reportedly includes the testimony of her sister—who was taken from a psychiatric hospital—a livestream from Ukraine that no one has seen, and posts in social media that Nadezhda denies owning. Read more in the article by Mediazona.zona.media/article/2025/06/20/nadin
Seda Suleimanova, a young woman from Grozny who was kidnapped by her own relatives—and likely killed—after she moved to St. Petersburg to be with her fiancé, has now been finally officially declared missing.
meduza.io/news/2025/06/16/pohischennuyu-chechenku-sedu-suleymanovu-ob-yavili-v-rozysk-kak-bez-vesti-propavshuyu
Read Meduza’s interview with her friend Lena Patyaeva, who launched the "Where is Seda?" campaign. They collected 3.5 times more signatures than originally planned.
meduza.io/feature/2025/05/22/gde-seda
On June 20, Verstka reported that the nomination period for upcoming elections has begun across Russian regions—but there aren't enough willing candidates to maintain the illusion of real politics.
verstka.media/slishkom-dorogaya-czena-za-dekoracziyu-politiki-pochemu-v-rossii-nikto-ne-hochet-idti-v-deputaty
And some good news: we congratulate Sergei Tikhanovsky and 13 other political prisoners on their release from a Belarusian prison.
meduza.io/news/2025/06/21/belorusskogo-oppozitsionera-sergeya-tihanovskogo-osvobodili-iz-tyurmy
That same night in Odesa, two people were killed and 17 injured; residential buildings in the city’s historic center were destroyed.
www.bbc.com/russian/articles/c1lj5j32jpvo
In her new video, Rusya Rassvet reminds us how propaganda operates, what we are told to be proud of in Russia, and what we should strive for instead of hatred and war.
Watch and listen to the new poem: "I Am Russian, or Hybrid Propaganda."www.youtube.com/watch?v=sryikU9oYyM And remain human. If you want change in Russia, make your contribution.
