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You are watching the news from the weekly rally at the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is August 17, 2:30 PM.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky assessed the progress of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' operation in the Kursk region: "We are achieving our strategic goal: we have significantly increased the exchange fund."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e08SFRyKfLs

Lithuanian Defense Minister Laurynas Kasčiūnas said at a meeting in Kyiv that Russia, thanks to Ukraine, is transferring troops from the Kaliningrad region to the Kursk region and called it "the demilitarization of Kaliningrad."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxg0ysxFR4c

The "DW in Russian" channel clearly illustrated why Ukraine needs long-range missiles. With such weapons and permission to use them, it will be much harder for Russia to protect the air bases from which it carries out most of its airstrikes on Ukraine.
youtu.be/e08SFRyKfLs?feature=shared&t=477

Twenty-four years ago, on the day of the Kursk submarine disaster, Putin went on vacation for five days. Sergei Dorenko said in his last TV show before his dismissal: "The authorities treat us like this only because we allow it."
www.youtube.com/live/dlNpEkB_9C8?feature=shared&t=2524
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnfzQu2X97o

On August 14, political scientist Vladimir Pastukhov and public figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky discussed the demographic crisis in Russia and argued that for Russia to become a different country, the value of human life must increase. Khodorkovsky also mentioned that Putin only needs a population of 50 million to trade for export.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFFuuYnqprE&t=2403s

According to the Venezuelan Attorney General's Office, they detained at least 2,200 protesters, labeling them "terrorists."
www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/08/venezuela-fact-finding-mission-calls-end-repression-thorough-investigations

Maduro's propaganda is distributing videos of opposition arrests accompanied by horror movie music. The leader of the opposition that won the elections, Maria Corina Machado, called on governments around the world to oppose Maduro's repressions.
www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/11/world-must-confront-maduro-campaign-of-terror-maria-corina-machado

This is important for us and the world: the situation in Venezuela is reminiscent of the protests in Russia in 2011-2012, triggered by massive election fraud and Putin's return to power. The lack of power rotation has created a global-scale threat.
www.bbc.com/russian/russia/2011/12/111203_navalny_yashin_held

Powerful protests took place in Belarus after the opposition's victory in 2020, but Lukashenko remained in power.
www.dw.com/ru/protesty-v-belarusi-v-minske-ozhidaetsja-marsh-spravedlivosti/a-54992008

Political scientist Abbas Gallyamov, commenting on the state of the Iranian opposition after the 2022 protests, said that a suppressed revolution leads to the strengthening of the regime because its opponents feel that victory is impossible.
www.youtube.com/live/C37ivmKHlz4?t=1349s

Belarusian video director Andrei Gnet was detained in Serbia in 2023 on a request for extradition to Belarus. Andrei is a co-founder of SOS-BY, an association of athletes speaking out against repressions, declared "extremist" by Lukashenko.
eurasia.amnesty.org/2024/06/27/aktivist-andrej-gnyot-zhdyot-ekstradiczii-iz-serbii-v-belarus-amnesty-international-prizyvaet-belgrad-ne-dopustit-etogo/

We also recall the situation of activist Vladislav Arinichev, whom Putin similarly labeled an "extremist" and "terrorist" for his anti-war stance. On August 2, the independent media outlet Doxa reported how Vladislav accidentally ended up in Croatia and described a camp for asylum seekers where people sleep on the floor. Vladislav also faces extradition.
doxa.team/articles/refugees-in-croatia

We call on Belgrade and Zagreb to prevent the extradition of Andrei and Vladislav.

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