In a Moscow court today we saw Russian human rights campaigner Oleg Orlov sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison. At his trial he’d spoken of a Russia “sinking ever more deeply into darkness.” Steve Rosenberg for BBC News

15 comments

1. I wonder how people in Russia who dare to speak against Putin walk having that big balls.

2. Hero this guy

3. They’re gonna be kissing his bottom after Putin’s gone. But more importantly they won’t say a single word to support him when he needs it the most

4. Sinking? That place is more of a black hole.

5. Stalin 2.0. I’m wondering when puti will start exterminating minorities inside russia on mass scale.

6. About time the Russian people has had it with Putler and *Husseins* him.

7. Russia isn’t sinking into darkness. Russia is the darkness.

8. As a pro-Russian sort of person, I do wonder what you make of this u/Routine_Bad_560. Can you really look at the fascism of Putin and his sycophantic government and still root for them, like you have so far?

9. I hope they dont kill him in prison like Navalny.

10. Imagine being so insecure, that you have to send this grandpa to prison for critisising his government.

11. Surprised to see BBC allowed to report from inside Russia.

12. It’s a shame. History shouldn’t repeat itself, but it does a lot lately 🙁

13. Russia is lost because there’s not enough heroes like him.

    Let’s hope Russia slumps into the perifery of human life, that country has been a net loss for humanity.

14. Just like Hitler, Putin’s gang can only be dealt with by modern lethal weapons and maximum armament in the hands of professional soldiers. God Bless Ukraine and anyone who fires at Putin’s thugs.

15. “*And then it got worse*”