 According, Russia has dismissed an appeal by the veteran human rights campaigner Oleg Orlov against his two and a half year prison sentence. His appeal's been turned down and Oleg Orlov, 71 years old, will have to serve his two and a half year sentence in a penal colony. A linchpin of the now banned rights group Memorial, Mr. Orlov is in prison for discrediting Russia's armed forces. He'd accused Moscow of the mass killing of civilians in Ukraine and of descending into fascism.