Oleg Orlov is one of Russia's best-known civil rights activists and co-chairman of the Memorial human rights foundation. The criminal case against Orlov was opened in March 2023 because of the article “They wanted fascism.
“You got him” introduced. The text in which the civil rights activist condemns the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine was first published in the French internet newspaper Mediapart. Orlov then posted it in Russian on his Facebook profile.