Oleg Orlov is a figure of the NGO Memorial Nobel Peace Prize 2022. He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for repeated denunciations of the military offensive launched two years ago against Ukraine by Vladimir Putin.
This conviction “is politically motivated and constitutes further proof of the growing lack of respect for human rights and freedom of expression in today's Russia,” added the Nobel committee. Orlov vowed to continue the fight, even if, by his own admission, his employees must now work “ in a semi-clandestinity”