#oleg ​orlov

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“This brutal war is not only mass murder of people and destruction of the infrastructure, economy, and cultural sites of Ukraine, but also a severe blow to the future of Russia, a country that is now pushed back into totalitarianism, but this time into a fascist totalitarianism.

We are being punished for daring to criticize authority.” —Oleg Orlov

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70-year-old human rights activist Oleg Orlov being escorted out of court by masked cops today. He’s headed for 2.5 years in prison for writing in an op-ed that the Putin regime has adopted fascism. I wonder who in the crowd will be the next on trial.

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Nick Anderson

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“These are all links in the same chain.  Alexey’s death or, rather, murder; the trials of other critics of the regime including myself; the suffocation of freedom in the country; the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army. So I have decided to speak.”

— Oleg Orlov, addressing the court that found him “guilty” of criticizing Putin’s war on Ukraine. His speech is must reading:

[The Atlantic]

#Putin's Party #Putin wing of the GOP #war in Ukraine #The Atlantic #Oleg Orlove #Putin #resist #Anne Applebaum

[russianreader]

Incredibly Weak

In the wake of Alexei Navalny’s murder by the Russian fascist state, his message to the Russian people, at the end of the award-winning documentary film Navalny, has been quoted ten thousand times and turned into a meme on social media, to wit: “If they decide to kill me, we are incredibly strong,” he said, addressing Russian citizens. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for…

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#Alexei Navalny #Boris Nemtsov #Oleg Orlov #Russian police state #Sergey Abashin

[russianprotesters]

From my point of view, patriotism is , first of all, not pride in one’s country, but burning shame for the crimes that are committed in its name. How ashamed we were during the First and Second Chechen Wars, how ashamed we are now for what the citizens of my country are doing in Ukraine in the name of Russia. The German philosopher Karl Jaspers wrote in 1946 a treatise “The Question of Guilt. On Germany's political responsibility." In this work, he formulated theses about four types of German guilt following the Second World War: criminal, political, moral and metaphysical. In my opinion, the thoughts expressed there are very consonant with the current situation with us - citizens of Russia in the twenties of the 21st century.  I will not talk about criminal guilt now. Those who committed crimes will either be punished for it or not. But the future of today's Russia (like the future of Germany in 1946) depends to a large extent on whether we are all, without exception, ready to think not about someone else's guilt, but about our own. Here is a quote from Jaspers' work: “The phrase: “It’s your fault” can mean that you are responsible for the crimes of the regime that you tolerated, but here we are talking about our political guilt.Your fault is that you also supported this regime, participated in it - this is our moral fault. Your guilt is that you were inactive when crimes were happening nearby—there is a metaphysical guilt here.”  In my opinion, people who love their homeland cannot help but think about what is happening to the country with which they feel an inextricable connection. They cannot help but think about their responsibility for what happened. And at the same time, they cannot help but try to share their thoughts with others. Sometimes you have to pay a price for this... So I tried. Let me give you one more quote. This time from an official statement made on March 22 of this year. “Russia and China call on all countries to promote universal human values ​​such as peace, development, equality, justice, democracy and freedom, and to engage in dialogue rather than engage in confrontation.” This is stated on behalf of the state that sent its troops to the territory of a neighboring country, Ukraine, the territorial integrity of which it recently recognized. On behalf of the state that is waging a war there, qualified by the absolute majority of UN member states as aggression. This is stated on behalf of a state in which all freedoms are suppressed, in which laws are urgently adopted and are being applied with all their might, directly contradicting the current Constitution, laws that declare any critical statement a crime. Including the law on the basis of which you are now judging me. Well, yes, “war is peace, freedom is slavery,” and “Russian troops in Ukraine support international peace and security.”  Dear Court, isn’t it obvious that we all - both you and I - find ourselves in the world of George Orwell, in his novel “1984”?

--Oleg Orlov, co-chairman of the Memorial Center for Human Rights, found guilty of “discrediting the army" because of an article condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Oleg Orlov, a leading human-rights activist, at the Human Rights Center Memorial in Moscow, Russia, on May 17, 2023.

‘We Are Being Punished for Daring to Criticize the Authority’

‘We Are Being Punished for Daring to Criticize the Authority’ (msn.com)

Opinion by Anne Applebaum

"On February 27, Orlov received a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for “discrediting the Russian army.” Following in a long tradition of Soviet dissidents before him, Orlov made a courtroom speech, addressed to those in the room and beyond. Joseph Brodsky, who later won the Nobel Prize in Literature, sparred in 1964 with a Soviet judge who asked him by what right he dared state “poet” as his occupation: Who ranked you among poets?” Brodsky replied, “No one. Who ranked me as a member of the human race?” That exchange circulated throughout the Soviet Union in handwritten and retyped versions, teaching an earlier generation about bravery and civic courage.

Orlov’s speech will also be reprinted and reread, and someday it will have the same impact too. Here are excerpts, translated by one of his colleagues:

On the first day of my trial, terrible news shocked Russia and the entire world: Alexey Navalny was dead. I, too, was in shock. At first, I even wanted to give up on making a final statement. Who cares about words today, when we have not recovered from the shock of this news? But then I thought: These are all links in the same chain.  Alexey’s death or, rather, murder; the trials of other critics of the regime including myself; the suffocation of freedom in the country; the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army. So I have decided to speak. I have not committed any crime. I am being tried for writing a newspaper article that described the political regime in Russia as totalitarian and fascist. I wrote this article over a year ago. Some of my acquaintances thought back then that I had exaggerated the gravity of the situation. Now, however, it is clear that I did not exaggerate. The government in our country not only controls all public, political, and economic life, but also aspires to exert control over culture and scientific thought … There isn’t a sphere of art where free artistic expression is possible, there are no free academic humanitarian sciences, and there is no more private life either.

[Read: How I lost the Russia that never was]

Orlov continued by reflecting on the absurdity of his case, of the legalistic rigamarole in Russia that conceals the regime’s lawlessness. In fact, the law is whatever Putin dictates. Everything else, the lawyers, prosecutors, and judges, are just there for show, to pretend that there is rule of law when there is not."

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Human rights activist jailed for criticising war in Ukraine | Ukraine war

#russia #ukraine #political prisoner #oleg orlov #memorial #Youtube

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Excerpt: “It’s not just public criticism that’s banned, but any independent thought. Even actions seemingly unrelated to politics or criticism of the authorities can be punished. There is no field of art where free artistic expression is possible, there is no academic freedom in the humanities, there is no more private life.”

#oleg orlov #homicidal russian regime

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#oleg orlov #franz kafka #the trial #der prozess

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Russie : 'Je ne m’attends à rien de bon', le dissident Oleg Orlov (ONG Memorial) comparaît à nouveau devant la justice - rtbf.be

Source: RTBF.be

#oleg orlov #procès #russie

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Asilomar State Beach, 21 July 2023. Photo by the Russian Reader Who is Girkin? Igor Girkin (Strelkov) is an ethno-fascist FSB officer and the warlord who prepared the ground and then launched the war in Donbas in 2014. He stated that without him, “there wouldn’t be any war”. He is also responsible for ordering the execution of numerous civilians, for which he still face justice. He was…

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the majority preferred to turn a blind eye to what was happening out of a sense of self-preservation. They say that protesting is dangerous, nothing can be changed anyway, and useless discussions of the crimes committed by our troops in Ukraine will only lead to insomnia and nervous breakdown. It’s better to pretend that you believe what they say on TV and even try to convince yourself of it.

And a very small minority is trying to fight. There is an anti-war movement in the country, which has its own political prisoners, its own heroes.

Human rights activists continue to work practically semi-underground - they help people legally avoid mobilization and conscription into the army, compile lists of political prisoners, provide them with lawyers, provide legal and humanitarian assistance to refugees from Ukraine, and seek the opportunity for them to travel to Europe.

The future of our country is being decided on the fields of Ukraine. The victory of Russian troops there will preserve fascism in Russia for a long time. And vice versa…

It is quite natural for any sane person to strive for peace instead of war. But peace at any cost? In Europe they already tried to achieve peace by appeasing the aggressor. The catastrophic outcome of these attempts is known to everyone.

And now fascist Russia, having won, will inevitably become a serious threat to the security of not only its neighbors, but also the whole of Europe.

#fascism #russia #oleg orlov #ukraine #war

[indizombie]

The Orlov trial has sparked international condemnation. The Council of Europe, Europe's oldest political organisation which aims to uphold democracy and human rights across the continent, denounced the case as "a travesty of justice". "The [Russian] government wants to control the thoughts of people. It wishes to have only opinions that are in agreement with their policies, even when it comes to deciding to start a war," the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovic tells me. "It's important that the messages coming from all of us who are monitoring what is going on in Russia are strong and clear that this is unacceptable."

Steve Rosenberg, ‘Ukraine war: Oleg Orlov faces jail time for criticising Putin's war’, BBC

#BBC #Steve Rosenberg #Oleg Orlov #Council of Europe #Dunja Mijatovic #Russia

[dostoyevsky-official]

70-year-old oleg orlov who leads Memorial, who freed over 1,000 hostages by exchanging them for himself, sentenced to 2.5 years for discrediting the army; an 87-year-old priest, a pediatrician, and a 70-year-old woman with cousins bombed in ukraine all getting various jail sentences for "discrediting the army", people getting upset at brightly-colored playgrounds or toys for being pro-LGBT; navalny's funeral friday; the neo-nazi rusich battallion confirmed to be actively executing ukrainian POWs. fun week in russian news alone

#moldavia-transnistria is non-news

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#oleg orlov #russia jailing human rights supporter