Veteran human rights advocate freed in swap says Russia is sliding back toward Stalinist times
BERLIN: A human rights activist in the 1980s, Oleg Orlov believed that Russia had turned a corner when the Soviet Union collapsed and a democratically elected president became the leader. But then Vladimir Putin came to power, crushing dissent and launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Eventually, 71-year-old Orlov was thrown into prison himself for … Read more