 An appeal by the veteran Russian human rights campaigner Oleg Orlov against his two-and-a-half-year prison sentence has been rejected by a court in Moscow. Mr. Orlov, a bold critic of President Putin's war in Ukraine, was jailed in February for discrediting the armed forces. Speaking to the reporters outside the court, Mr. Orlov's wife, Tutyana Kutsatkina, said she was not surprised by the decision.