Ilya Valeryevich Yashin is a Russian opposition politician who led the PARNAS party from 2012 to 2016, and then its Moscow branch.
20 Facts About Ilya Yashin
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Ilya Yashin was head of the Moscow municipal district of Krasnoselsky and former chairman of the Council of Deputies of the Krasnoselsky district from 2017 to 2021.
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Amidst an increase in government crackdowns on the opposition following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, some considered Ilya Yashin to have had the largest platform of any opposition politician that had not either left the country, been imprisoned, or been killed.
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Ilya Yashin was born in a Russian family, in Moscow on July 29,1983.
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Ilya Yashin graduated from International Independent University of Environmental and Political Sciences, the Faculty of Political Science, in 2005.
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Ilya Yashin 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.
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Ilya Yashin is known for making passionate speeches at opposition rallies.
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Ilya Yashin is an active participant in the Strategy-31 campaign for freedom of assembly.
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On 31 December 2010, Ilya Yashin was arrested for demonstrating in Moscow at another rally for Strategy-31.
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Ilya Yashin was taken to a police station and detained for fifteen days.
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On 10 September 2017 Ilya Yashin was elected a municipal deputy of the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow.
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On 7 October 2017 Ilya Yashin was elected a chairman of the council of deputies of Krasnoselsky municipal district of Moscow.
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On 11 April 2018 Ilya Yashin announced his intention to run in the election for Moscow mayor's office and beat the incumbent Sergey Sobyanin.
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Ilya Yashin reported that he considered it was due to his support for Alexei Navalny.
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In March 2022, Ilya Yashin publicly condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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On 27 June 2022, Ilya Yashin was detained in Moscow by local police.
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Ilya Yashin called the case politically motivated and intended to suppress his political stance towards the war in Ukraine.
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On 13 July, a court ordered his pretrial detention; Ilya Yashin was tried over a YouTube video released in April 2022 in which he discussed the discovery of murdered Ukrainian civilians in the suburban town of Bucha, near Kyiv.
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Ilya Yashin's punishment was the harshest given under the new laws which criminalize spreading "false" information about the armed forces.
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On 19 April 2023, Ilya Yashin lost his appeal to his eight-and-a-half years sentence at the Moscow City Court.