Oleg Orlov

Veteran human rights advocate freed in swap says Russia is sliding back toward Stalinist times

Thrown in prison for opposing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Orlov was treed last week in the largest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War
Just like the Soviet dissidents of his youth, the co-founder of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning rights group Memorial Orlov was forced into exile

By AP · 11 August 2024