Oleg ORLOV on behalf of MEMORIAL, Sakharov Prize 2009 Winner, gives an interview to the European Parliament.

Strasbourg

interview

Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought 2009 (T)

Memorial

ORLOV, Oleg (RU)

Interview by Oleg ORLOV on behalf of MEMORIAL, Sakharov Prize 2009 Winner

SOUNDBITE (Russian), Oleg ORLOV, President of the NGO Memorial, Sakharov prize 2009, There are many problems with human rights in Russia, to start with, some people loose their lives...

SOUNDBITE (Russian), Oleg ORLOV, President of the NGO Memorial, Sakharov prize 2009, There are a lot of other problems: refugees, displaced persons, migrants... a lot of national discrimination, and lack of freedom for media

SOUNDBITE (Russian), Oleg ORLOV, President of the NGO Memorial, Sakharov prize 2009, and we have reasons to believe that there were representatives of the State who killed her

SOUNDBITE (Russian), Oleg ORLOV, President of the NGO Memorial, Sakharov prize 2009, Officially there is no death penalty in Russia, officially there is moratorium, but some people are being put to death, specially in the North Caucasus

SOUNDBITE (Russian), Oleg ORLOV, President of the NGO Memorial, Sakharov prize 2009, The person who was called the 'soul' of Memorial, Natasha Estemirova, was just killed in the North Caucasus.

SOUNDBITE (Russian), Oleg ORLOV, President of the NGO Memorial, Sakharov prize 2009, To change the situation in Chechnya and in the North Caucasus in general political will from the Kremlin is necessary.

SOUNDBITE (Russian), Oleg ORLOV, President of the NGO Memorial, Sakharov prize 2009, This apparent stabilisation has nothing to do with real stabilisation.

SOUNDBITE (Russian), Oleg ORLOV, President of the NGO Memorial, Sakharov prize 2009, We should not stop talking about this problem because we only pay attention when something really horrible happens, as what happened recently