Жара в Португалии. Голодовка украинцев на границе РФ и Грузии. Дела за донаты ФБК.

Heat in Portugal. Ukrainians on hunger strike at the Russia–Georgia border. Cases against ACF donors.

You're watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is August 9, 2:30 PM.

On August 7, the state of alert in mainland Portugal, introduced on the 3rd due to the high risk of forest fires, was extended until the end of the day August 13. Firefighters, medical and social services, the GNR, police and the military are on high alert. Volunteers serving as firefighters are allowed to skip work. Access to forest areas is prohibited, including transiting them by road; certain types of work are banned; and, of course, lighting fires and setting off fireworks is prohibited.
prociv.gov.pt/pt/avisos-a-populacao/07082025-declaracao-da-situacao-de-alerta/

The Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere warns of extreme risks in the regions of Vila Real and Bragança this weekend.
www.ipma.pt/pt/index.html

The poor air quality reported in recent forecasts is due to dust carried by winds from the North African deserts. RTP reported another portion of dust on August 7.
www.rtp.pt/noticias/pais/nova-massa-de-poeiras-do-norte-de-africa-atinge-portugal-na-quinta-feira_n1674628

The “Luso Meteo” forecasting service warns of high dust concentrations from August 10 to 12.
lusometeo.com/atualidade/poeiras-de-africa-26300/

On August 8, Alexander Cherkasov, chair of the board of the human rights center “Memorial,” recalled the “08.08.08” war. As a result of the five-day war, Russia occupies a fifth of Georgia, and twenty percent of its inhabitants are refugees. This was the first of the “thawed” hot spots in the post-Soviet space. Cherkasov draws attention to the fact that impunity for war crimes, which began with the wars in Chechnya, ensured their repetition.
memorialcenter.org/news/17-let-nazad-nachalas-vojna-v-gruzii

On August 6, Deutsche Welle reported that at least 15 Ukrainian citizens, out of about 100 being held in a basement at the Russia–Georgia border, had gone on hunger strike. They demand a meeting with the Ukrainian consul, medical assistance, and guarantees of passage to Ukraine. Some of them were imprisoned in the Russian Federation for opposing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and some have criminal records in Ukraine.
www.dw.com/ru/ukraincy-obavili-golodovku-na-granice-rossii-i-gruzii/a-73549313

On August 5, the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Political Repression is marked at the Sandarmokh forest tract. On this day in 1937, the bloodiest operation of Stalin’s “Great Terror” began. On August 1, Novaya Gazeta told about the persecution of a support group for historian Yuri Dmitriev, who revealed the names of the Sandarmokh executioners. Since 2016, he has been in prison, in his words, “for Sandarmokh.”
novayagazeta.ru/articles/2025/08/01/vasha-banda-razdrazhaet

On August 4, Mediazona reported a sharp increase in the number of cases against those who continued to donate to the Anti-Corruption Foundation after the Russian authorities designated all of Alexei Navalny’s structures as “extremist organizations.” Journalists have prepared instructions on how to check whether you transferred money to ACF via Stripe from Russian cards.
zona.media/article/2025/08/04/donations

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