1. Kira Yarmysh is the former press secretary and assistant of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the author of the 2020 novel Incredible Incidents in Women's Cell No 3.
11 Facts About Kira Yarmysh
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Kira Yarmysh was born in Rostov-on-Don on October 11,1989 into a Jewish family.
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In 2017, Yarmysh was co-host of several editions of the Navalny 20:18 programme, and made anti-corruption statements on her behalf.
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In particular, she published a video in which she said that Putin's friend Mikhail Kovalchuk "owns all television"; later Kira Yarmysh acknowledged factual errors in the video and deleted it.
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In February 2018, Kira Yarmysh was arrested for 5 days for a retweet that "formed a negative opinion of another candidate" in the Russian presidential elections; in May of the same year, a court of Moscow ordered a 25-day administrative arrest for tweets made two days before Vladimir Putin's inauguration about the action "He's Not our Tsar".
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Kira Yarmysh was jailed for 9 days on charges of organizing public events without notifying the authorities.
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On February 1,2021, Kira Yarmysh was placed under house arrest.
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Kira Yarmysh fled Russia in 2021 after being convicted for calling for protests against Navalny's arrest.
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On October 26,2020, the Corpus publishing house published a novel by Kira Yarmysh titled "Incredible Incidents in Women's Cell No 3".
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The novel is based on the author's personal experience; Alexei Navalny said that he was the one who convinced Kira Yarmysh to write the book.
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Kira Yarmysh was in a relationship with Ruslan Shaveddinov, FBK's project manager.