16 дней против насилия над женщинами. Запрещена Human Rights Watch. Стоптайм покинули Россию.

16 Days of Ending Violence Against Women. Human Rights Watch has been banned. Stoptime left Russia.

You're watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is November 29, 2:30 PM.

On November 25, the UN launched a 16-day campaign to protect women from digital violence. It is estimated that nearly one in three women worldwide has experienced physical or sexual violence at least once in her lifetime.
www.un.org/ru/observances/ending-violence-against-women

I want to tell the story of architect-artist Olga Smirnova. She is serving a six-year prison sentence for several posts on the VKontakte public page “Democratic Petersburg–Peaceful Resistance,” as well as for organizing an anti-war protest on March 6, 2022. Here is a quote from a post about the protest: “The particularly grave war crimes committed by Russian aggressors in just a few days this year are comparable in scale only to the atrocities of the German Nazis during World War II.”
memopzk.org/figurant/smirnova-olga-borisovna/

That day, approximately 5,000 people were detained at anti-war protests in 69 Russian cities.
ovd.info/articles/2022/03/06/razbitye-golovy-i-elektroshokery-itogi-antivoennoy-akcii-6-marta

On November 28, Russian authorities declared “undesirable” the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch. For more than three decades, it has pressured the Russian government to respect human rights and freedoms.
apnews.com/article/russia-crackdown-undesirable-organization-human-rights-watch-17cd57227679c9995626e9444fd60ff5

On November 25, Russian payment services, without explanation, refused to continue working with the human rights project OVD-Info. For a long time, their motto in helping those detained at protests was: “No one should be left alone with the system.” Now their goal is to bring about a complete end to politically motivated persecution in Russia.
meduza.io/news/2025/11/25/rossiyskie-platezhnye-servisy-otklyuchili-perevody-pravozaschitnomu-proektu-ovd-info

In April, they launched a legal assistance program for people facing pressure for their political views at work and at school.
ovd.info/content/po-sobstvennomu-zhelaniyu

Since 2017, they have been appealing the detentions of protest participants and other violations of their rights to the ECHR. During this time, together with the Memorial Human Rights Center, they have filed over 3,000 complaints, with compensation totaling 1 billion rubles. They have now redirected this work to the UN Human Rights Committee.
ovd.info/content/rossiya-dolzhna-podzaschitnym-ovd-info-1-milliard-rubley

Tens of thousands of people in Russia can no longer support them—but you can. Sign up for recurring donations using the link in the description.
donate.ovdinfo.legal/en#page=en

On November 23, it was announced that Stoptime lead singer Diana Loginova and guitarist Alexander Orlov were released and left Russia.
www.facebook.com/100064569978792/posts/1305882564907397/

That same day in New York, in front of the Russian Consulate, an association similar to ours—Russian America for Democracy in Russia (RADR)—held a musical event in support of the Stoptime band and all street musicians in Russia detained by police for performing anti-war songs.
www.instagram.com/reel/DRbZyDTDioV/?igsh=M3dtbXdsb2d1NHdn

RADR helps political prisoners with food and medicine, purchases drones for Ukrainian defenders and humanitarian aid for civilians, and assists asylum seekers in U.S. detention centers.
www.democracy4russia.org/projects

We continue to invite you to participate in the action in support of those in Russia who oppose the war. Monetochka’s song “You’re a Soldier” is now available with subtitles in six languages.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8StxhvQj4T8

Russia is not their property.

If you want change in Russia—make your contribution.