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Ilya Yashin
Ilya Valeryevich Yashin (Russian: Илья́ Вале́рьевич Я́шин; born 29 June 1983) is a Russian opposition politician who led the People's Freedom Party (PARNAS) from 2012 to 2016, and then its Moscow branch. He was also head of the Moscow municipal district of Krasnoselsky and former chairman of the Council of Deputies of the Krasnoselsky district from 2017 to 2021.
Yashin co-founded the civic youth movement Oborona in 2005 and later the political movement Solidarnost in 2008, of which he is still one of the leaders. He was an active participant in the Dissenters' March and the 2011–2013 Russian protests. In 2012, he was elected to the Russian Opposition Coordination Council. Amidst an increase in government crackdowns on the opposition following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, some considered Yashin to have had the largest platform of any opposition politician that had not either left the country, been imprisoned, or been killed. In June 2022, he was arrested, and later accused under the new war censorship laws of disseminating fake news about the Armed Forces. In December 2022, he was sentenced to 8+1⁄2 years in prison. Yashin was freed in August 2024 as part of the 2024 Ankara prisoner exchange.
On 8 September 2025, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia declared Yashin a stateless person.
Ilya Yashin was born in a Russian family in Moscow on 29 July 1983. After graduating from a comprehensive school with advanced study of Russian language and literature and an art school, in 2000 he entered He graduated from the International Independent University of Environmental and Political Sciences, the Faculty of Political Science. In 2005 he defended his thesis «Technologies of protest organization in modern Russia». From 2007, Yashin studied at the Department of Applied Political Science at the Graduate School of Economics.
He served as the leader of the Yabloko party's youth wing since 2001 until 2008, organizing mass protests and speaking to the media about their causes. However, when he became an active member of Solidarnost in 2008, Yabloko expelled him for "causing political damage". Yashin ran for Moscow parliament in 2005 where he later became a close associate of Boris Nemtsov.
After joining Solidarity, Yashin was elected to the movement's Federal Political Council and Bureau, along with Boris Nemtsov, Garry Kasparov and other prominent opposition figures, followed by members of the SPS and the United Civil Front.
In the spring of 2009, Yashin headed Nemtsov's headquarters in the Sochi mayoral election. According to the voting results, Nemtsov received 13.6% of the vote, Yashin reported large-scale fraud in early voting and home voting, ballot stuffing at polling stations and pressure on observers, but even the official result was called high enough.
In July of the same year, Solidarity nominated Yashin among other candidates in the Moscow City Duma elections, however, the election commission recognized 100% of the signatures collected in his support as defective. The reason was the alleged inconsistency of the form of the signature sheet with the current legislation. Yashin was removed from the election. Subsequently, other Solidarity representatives were also denied registration.
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Ilya Yashin
Ilya Valeryevich Yashin (Russian: Илья́ Вале́рьевич Я́шин; born 29 June 1983) is a Russian opposition politician who led the People's Freedom Party (PARNAS) from 2012 to 2016, and then its Moscow branch. He was also head of the Moscow municipal district of Krasnoselsky and former chairman of the Council of Deputies of the Krasnoselsky district from 2017 to 2021.
Yashin co-founded the civic youth movement Oborona in 2005 and later the political movement Solidarnost in 2008, of which he is still one of the leaders. He was an active participant in the Dissenters' March and the 2011–2013 Russian protests. In 2012, he was elected to the Russian Opposition Coordination Council. Amidst an increase in government crackdowns on the opposition following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, some considered Yashin to have had the largest platform of any opposition politician that had not either left the country, been imprisoned, or been killed. In June 2022, he was arrested, and later accused under the new war censorship laws of disseminating fake news about the Armed Forces. In December 2022, he was sentenced to 8+1⁄2 years in prison. Yashin was freed in August 2024 as part of the 2024 Ankara prisoner exchange.
On 8 September 2025, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia declared Yashin a stateless person.
Ilya Yashin was born in a Russian family in Moscow on 29 July 1983. After graduating from a comprehensive school with advanced study of Russian language and literature and an art school, in 2000 he entered He graduated from the International Independent University of Environmental and Political Sciences, the Faculty of Political Science. In 2005 he defended his thesis «Technologies of protest organization in modern Russia». From 2007, Yashin studied at the Department of Applied Political Science at the Graduate School of Economics.
He served as the leader of the Yabloko party's youth wing since 2001 until 2008, organizing mass protests and speaking to the media about their causes. However, when he became an active member of Solidarnost in 2008, Yabloko expelled him for "causing political damage". Yashin ran for Moscow parliament in 2005 where he later became a close associate of Boris Nemtsov.
After joining Solidarity, Yashin was elected to the movement's Federal Political Council and Bureau, along with Boris Nemtsov, Garry Kasparov and other prominent opposition figures, followed by members of the SPS and the United Civil Front.
In the spring of 2009, Yashin headed Nemtsov's headquarters in the Sochi mayoral election. According to the voting results, Nemtsov received 13.6% of the vote, Yashin reported large-scale fraud in early voting and home voting, ballot stuffing at polling stations and pressure on observers, but even the official result was called high enough.
In July of the same year, Solidarity nominated Yashin among other candidates in the Moscow City Duma elections, however, the election commission recognized 100% of the signatures collected in his support as defective. The reason was the alleged inconsistency of the form of the signature sheet with the current legislation. Yashin was removed from the election. Subsequently, other Solidarity representatives were also denied registration.