Oleg Orlov | |
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Олег Орлов | |
| Born | Oleg Petrovich Orlov April 4, 1953 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, civil rights activist |
| Known for | participation in Soviet dissident movement and struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union |
| Movement | dissident and human rights movements in the Soviet Union |
Oleg Petrovich Orlov (Russian: Олег Петрович Орлов; born April 4, 1953) is a Russian human rights activist who has participated in post-Soviet Union human rights movements. He serves as the chairman of the Board of Human Rights Center “Memorial,” and is an executive board member of the Center's International, Historic-Educational Society. From 2004 until 2006, Orlov was in the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights of the Russian Federation. Through his work with Memorial, Orlov was a laureate of the 2009 Sakharov Prize in recognition of his human rights work. He is a member of the federal political council movement Solidarnost.[1]