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Russian activist compares courts to Nazi Germany
Oleg Orlov is defiant as he loses his appeal against a jail term for "discrediting the Russian army".
BBC News
Oleg Petrovich Orlov is a Russian human rights activist who has participated in post-Soviet Union human rights movements. He serves as the chairman of the Board of Human Rights Center “Memorial,” and is an executive board member of the Center's International, Historic-Educational Society. From 2004 until 2006, Orlov was in the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights of the Russian Federation. Through his work with Memorial, Orlov was a laureate of the 2009 Sakharov Prize in recognition of his human rights work. He is a member of the federal political council movement Solidarnost.
Oleg Orlov is defiant as he loses his appeal against a jail term for "discrediting the Russian army".