Exchange participant Oleg Orlov*: I believe that we will return to Russia - Online Interlocutor
The co-founder of the destroyed but not dead Memorial** was sent to prison at the end of February for 2.5 years under the article of “repeated discrediting of the army.” Over the next five months, Oleg Orlov*, together with his wife Tatyana Kasatkina and lawyer Katerina Tertukhina, tried to challenge the verdict. On August 1, together with Ilya Yashin*, Vladimir Kara-Murza* and other Russian political prisoners and foreign citizens, Orlov* was exchanged for Russian agents arrested in the West.