Russian dissident Oleg Orlov refuses to testify during his trial. The 70-year-old man faces up to five years in prison for his repeated denunciations of the military offensive in Ukraine.
He is accused of having demonstrated against the Russian assault in Ukraine and of having signed a vitriolic column. Orlov remains, for a few days at least, an exceptional figure by being both free in Russia and openly critical of Vladimir Putin's regime. If most of Putin's critics have been incarcerated or driven into exile in recent years, he is staying in Russia to "continue the fight"