Oleg Orlov is fighting charges of “smearing” the Russian armed forces.
Moscow:
Russia’s Justice Ministry said on Friday it had designated veteran Russian human rights activist Oleg Orlov as a “foreign agent.”
The foreign agent designation requires individuals and entities on the list to make disclaimers for projects they publish and imposes strict financial reporting and self-disclosure requirements.
Orlov, 70, has been for more than two decades one of the leaders of the commemorative human rights group, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, a year after it was banned and disbanded in Russia.
Orlov is fighting charges of “smearing” the Russian armed forces. In October, he was fined for an article in which he wrote that Russia under President Vladimir Putin had descended into fascism.
He appealed the verdict, and prosecutors subsequently sought three years in prison, accusing him of “political vendetta against Russia”, which he denies.
In December, a Moscow court ordered a retrial of Orlov’s case on a legal technicality after prosecutors changed their stance.
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