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Overshadowed by the death of Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, a new trial has begun in Russia of another opponent of the war: Oleg Orlov from the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights organization Memorial, which is banned in Russia. Orlov’s trial began on Friday at the Golovinsky District Court in Moscow. On Saturday his organization praised the deceased human rights activist. “The death of Alexei Navalny is a tragedy… for everyone who wants Russia to become a democratic country,” Memorial announced on Saturday in a statement. It called Navalny’s death “a political murder which has its dir…

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