A Russian court has fined Oleg Orlov, a veteran human rights advocate and co-chair of Memorial Society, Russia’s most recognized and oldest human rights organization, for repeatedly denouncing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Memorial received the Nobel Prize last year.
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