The founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Yuri Orlov, died at the age of 96.
Soviet and Russian human rights activist, founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group Yuri Orlov died at the age of 97. As reported on the organization’s website, Orlov died the day before, on September 27. “A physicist, human rights activist, thinker, he lived a long and active life, teaching his beloved physics to the last opportunity and continuing to stay in touch with the human rights movement,” the message notes. Yuri Orlov was born on August 13, 1924.