‘I Believe in a Better Future’: Rights Veteran Oleg Orlov on His 2.5-Year Sentence for Opposing Ukraine War

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
of the few prominent anti-war figures who have stayed in Russia since the invasion
His sentencing comes after prosecutors sought a retrial of his previous verdict and requested he be jailed.Ahead of his sentencing on
article if I had known the consequences
regime established in Russia totalitarian and fascist
The article was written more than a year ago
exaggerating at all
The state in our country again controls not only social, political, and economic life, but also claims complete control over culture,
2022 Nobel Peace Prize alongside Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties and jailed Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski.Orlov was
part of a group that swapped themselves for civilian hostages taken by Chechen fighters in 1995 and were eventually released.In 2004, Orlov
became a member of the Russian presidential human rights council.Orlov appealed the first court verdict last year, calling it "illegal" and