 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.