“On September 27, 2020, Yuri Fedorovich Orlov, the founder and first chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group, left us at the 97th year of his life,” the message says.
As noted, he lived a long and active life, teaching physics to the last opportunity and staying in touch with the human rights movement.
On December 8, 2018, a human rights activist, chairman of the MHG Lyudmila Alekseeva died.