two documentaries about the Soviet dissident movement, They Chose Freedom in 2005, and Parallels, Events, People in 2014. He was a member of the Human Rights Watch Asia Advisory and Academic Freedom Committees, and member of the Honorary 25th Anniversary Committee, Global Rights. Orlov died on 27 September 2020, aged 96. References Some publications Further reading Yuri Orlov Cornell University Homepage Video 1924 births 2020 deaths Scientists from Moscow Moscow State University alumni Soviet physicists 20th-century American physicists Russian nuclear physicists Soviet nuclear physicists Soviet dissidents Soviet human rights activists Moscow Helsinki Group Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Expelled members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Amnesty International people Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by the Soviet Union Soviet prisoners and detainees Soviet expellees People denaturalized by the Soviet Union Soviet emigrants to the United States Cornell University faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Russian memoirists Russian political writers Soviet people of World War II 21st-century American physicists Inmates of Lefortovo Prison Russian prisoners and detainees People associated with CERN Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni People with acquired American citizenship Fellows of the American Physical Society