Oleg Petrovich Orlov
Oleg Petrovich Orlov ( Russian Олег Петрович Орлов , English Oleg Orlov ; born April 7, 1953 , Moscow ) is the head of the legal center of the human rights organization » Memorial «.
Life
Oleg Orlov grew up in the family of a dissident engineer in Moscow. He first studied agricultural science, then biology at the Moscow State University . Then he worked at the Institute of Plant Physiology at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow.
In 1988 he took part in the founding of the initiative group for the "Memorial" organization, which wanted to deal with the crimes of Stalinism. He became one of their leading representatives. In 1990 he became an employee in the department for human rights in the newly elected Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR and confidante of the human rights commissioner of the Russian President Sergei Kovalev . In the years that followed, they kept a critical eye on the situation in the North Caucasian republics of Chechnya , Ingushetia and others, and produced several reports on human rights violations there.
In 2004 he became a member of the Human Rights Council of the Russian President . In 2006 he gave up this position in protest against the lack of reappraisal of the murder of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya . In 2007 he and other observers were kidnapped near Nazran in Ingushetia and physically abused. In 2009 he described Chechnya President Kadyrov as the murderer of Memorial worker Natalia Estemirova . The subsequent lawsuits against these statements ended in 2012 with an acquittal for him.
In 2009 he received the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament and the Victor Gollancz Prize of the Society for Threatened Peoples for Memorial .
Web links
- Interview with Oleg Orlov (Russian)
- Speech by Prof. Dr. Hajo Funke for Oleg Orlow Society for Threatened Peoples , June 2, 2010
- Oleg Orlov Press Review Paragraphs, Pearl Divers, 2014
Remarks
- ↑ Portrait of Oleg Orlow Tagesspiegel, July 18, 2009
- ^ Libel proceedings against Oleg Orlov suspended Society for Threatened Peoples, 23 January 2012
- ↑ Awarded the Victor Gollancz Prize 2009 Society for Threatened Peoples
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Orlov, Oleg Petrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Orlov, Oleg; Орлов, Олег Петрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian head of the legal center of the human rights organization »Memorial« |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1953 |