Yuri Orlov, a Soviet physicist, and disillusioned former Communist who publicly held Moscow accountable for failing to protect the rights of dissidents and was imprisoned and exiled for his own apostasy, died on Sept. 27 at his home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 96.
New York Times: Yuri Orlov, bold champion of Soviet dissidents, dies at 96
Soviet dissident Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov and wife Irina at New York airport upon their arrival from Moscow on Oct. 5, 1986.
