Head of the Krasnoselsky municipal district since October 7, 2017.
Chairman of the Council of Deputies of the Krasnoselsky municipal district of Moscow.
Member of the Bureau of the Federal Political Council of the democratic movement "Solidarity".
Ilya Yashin was born on June 29, 1983 in Moscow. The young man graduated from secondary school No. 172 in 2000 with in-depth study of the Russian language and literature, and was also a graduate of an art school. In the same year he entered the political science department of the International Independent Ecological and Political Science University. In 2005, he defended his diploma on the methods of organizing street protests with the scientific adviser Sergei Chernyakhovsky. Two years later, he entered graduate school at the Higher School of Economics in the department of applied political science, under the scientific adviser Yuliy Nisnevich.
In 2000, Yashin joined the Russian democratic party Yabloko. Since 2001, for four years he was the head of the Moscow Youth Apple. At the same time he acted as an assistant to the deputy of the Moscow City Duma Evgeny Bunimovich. At the same time, the young man was a member of the regional council of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, later becoming a member of the federal bureau of Yabloko.
In August 2004, Yashin took part in the “Down with the police autocracy!” event, held by Youth Yabloko, during which a memorial plaque with a portrait of Yuri Andropov was poured with paint. At the end of January 2005, he participated in the “Shaving Against Conscription” campaign, publicly shaving himself to zero near the walls of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces as a sign of protest against the government’s plans. The action was carried out after the Russian Minister of Defense announced his intention to cancel student deferments from military service.
In March 2005, Ilya Valerievich took the post of co-chairman of the internal party youth association “Youth Yabloko”. In the same month, he became one of the founders and a member of the coordinating council of the youth public movement “Defense”. A year later, as a result of a split in the movement, he left Defense along with his supporters.
Further, in the fall of 2005, Yashin ran for deputy of the Moscow City Duma in electoral district No. 13. In the elections on December 4 of the same year, he received 14.2% of the vote, taking third place. Two years later, Ilya refused to participate in the elections to the State Duma on the Yabloko list, although his entry into the federal three was discussed. Speaking from the rostrum of the federal party council on June 17, 2007, Yashin announced the need to boycott “elections without choice,” but his position remained in the absolute minority in the party.
Towards the end of November 2007, Yashin took part in a one-man picket to protest against the arrest of the organizer of the “March of Dissent” Garry Kasparov. After the activist unfurled the slogan “Free Kasparov” in front of the building of the capital’s police department, two young people with posters stood next to him. Since a picket with the participation of more than one person requires approval from the authorities, the police detained the protesters. In the same year, together with Alexander Shurshev, he committed another action: a demonstrative symbolic self-immolation on the Sofiyskaya embankment. Using special fireproof clothing, the young people doused themselves with gasoline and set themselves on fire, holding a banner reading “No successors or burn in hell.”
On December 19, 2007, at a press conference in Moscow, he criticized the Yabloko leadership and declared his readiness to fight for the post of party chairman at the next congress. He unveiled his own reform program for Yabloko. A year later, on December 18, 2008, Yashin was expelled from the Yabloko party by a decision of the regional council of the Moscow organization with the wording “causing political damage.” According to the regional council, this damage was expressed, in particular, in attempts to split the party and numerous violations of the spirit and letter of the decisions of its governing bodies.
In December 2008, Ilya Yashin took part in the founding congress of the Solidarity movement and was elected to the bureau of the federal political council.
Six months later, Ilya Valerievich headed the headquarters of Boris Nemtsov in the elections for the mayor of Sochi. According to the election results, Nemtsov received 13.6% of the votes. The headquarters announced numerous falsifications on the part of the authorities, related, in particular, to early voting and voting at home.
In July 2009, with the support of Solidarity, Yashin put forward his candidacy in the elections of deputies of the Moscow City Duma of the fifth convocation in single-mandate district No. 14. However, on September 4, 2009, the election commission withdrew the candidate from the elections, invalidating 100% of the signatures collected in support of his registration. At the same time, another 56 opposition self-nominated candidates and three candidates from the Patriots of Russia party out of a total of 143 who submitted signature sheets were deregistered.
Further, in 2010, Ilya Yashin, without leaving Solidarity, joined the ranks of the newly formed organization “People's Freedom Party”, whose leaders were Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Ryzhkov and Mikhail Kasyanov. The abbreviated name of this organization is PARNAS. In 2012, it merged with the Republican Party of Russia, changing its name to RPR-PARNAS.
At the end of October 2010, Yashin, after a rally on Triumfalnaya Square in defense of Article 31 of the Constitution, took part in an unauthorized march to the White House, where he was detained along with other participants. Then, on November 19, 2010, a series of single pickets by members of Solidarity and the Committee of Five Demands took place near the Government House in Moscow. Ilya Yashin was the first to go to the picket, but was detained by federal security service officers. The rest of the pickets passed without incident.
At the beginning of January 2011, the international human rights organization Amnesty International recognized as prisoners of conscience Ilya Yashin, Boris Nemtsov and Konstantin Kosyakin, who were detained and subsequently convicted along with Yashin for participating in a Russian opposition rally on Triumfalnaya Square dedicated to the defense of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Amnesty International said in a statement: "The organization considers them prisoners of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of their rights to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression."
Later, on December 5, 2011, Yashin and Alexei Navalny were detained after a rally on Chistoprudny Boulevard, sanctioned by the authorities and held by the Solidarity movement. After the end of the event, they and several hundred participants staged an unauthorized march to the building of the Central Election Commission of Russia on Lubyanka, during which they were detained by the police. The next day, a court hearing took place, during which the judge found Yashin, and later Navalny, guilty of resisting law enforcement officers and imposed 15 days of administrative arrest as punishment.
Two months later, Yashin led the liberal democratic column at a civil march for fair elections, which took place on Moscow’s Yakimanka Street. At the end of October 2012, in the elections of the Coordination Council of the Opposition on the general civil list, Ilya Valerievich took fifth place, gaining 32.4 thousand votes, losing to Alexei Navalny, Dmitry Bykov, Garry Kasparov and Ksenia Sobchak.
During the “Crimean Spring” of 2014, Yashin opposed the annexation of Crimea to Russia. In mid-December 2016, the oppositionist left the PARNAS party, saying that Mikhail Kasyanov led the party to complete collapse.
In the elections to the councils of municipal deputies of the city of Moscow that took place on a single voting day on September 10, 2017, Yashin and his Solidarity comrades received 7 mandates in 2 districts of the Krasnoselsky district. Already on October 1 of the same year, Yashin, Konstantin Yankauskas, Maxim Motin and Yulia Galyamina held a congress of independent municipal deputies on the territory of the Flacon design plant, designed to unite new city opposition politicians.
The event brought together about a hundred people who discussed the need to expand the powers of local self-government, issues of forming municipal budgets, and plans for joint legislative activities. At a meeting of municipal deputies on October 7, 2017, Yashin was elected chairman of the council of deputies of the Krasnoselsky municipal district.
Chairman of the Krasnoselsky Council of Deputies Ilya Yashin July 27, 2019 detained by police officers during a rally in support of independent candidates for the Moscow City Duma, which took place on Trubnaya Square in the capital.
The image of Ilya Yashin in culture
Literary works
Documentaries
Art films
The image of Ilya Yashin in culture
Literary works
Yashin is one of the heroes of Valery Panyushkin’s book “12 Dissenters” - a collection of short stories about the heroes of protest actions, published in 2009. In addition to Yashin's story, the book presents the stories of Garry Kasparov, Viktor Shenderovich, Maria Gaidar, Sergei Udaltsov, Maxim Gromov, Andrei Illarionov, Marina Litvinovich, Anatoly Ermolin, Vissarion Aseev and Natalia Morar.
The politician became the prototype of one of the heroes of Sergei Minaev’s novel “Media Sapiens. The Tale of the Third Term" - a young man named Yasha.
Documentaries
“The Enfant terrible children of GDP”, fr. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin's enfants terribles (director: Maurice Rufen, production: France), 2006.
"Putin's Kiss", dated. Putins kys (director: Lise Birk Pedersen, production: Denmark, Russia), 2012.
“Winter, go away!” (directors: Alexey Zhiryakov, Denis Klebleev, Dmitry Kubasov, Askold Kurov, Nadezhda Leontyeva, Anna Moiseenko, Madina Mustafina, Zosya Rodkevich, Anton Seregin, Elena Khoreva, production: Russia), 2012.
“Term” (directors: Alexey Pivovarov, Pavel Kostomarov and Alexander Rastorguev, production: Russia), 2014.
He acted as a commentator on the political situation in the film “Swamp Fever.”
“Too Free a Man” (director: Vera Krichevskaya, script: Mikhail Fishman, composer: Andrey Makarevich, production: Russia) 2016.
Art films
Ilya Yashin became the prototype for the hero Pyotr Fedorov in the film “Her Name was Mumu” directed by Vladimir Mirzoev.
Yashin Ilya Valerievich is a young Russian opposition politician. As you know, politics is not an activity for the weak, much less activity in the opposition. A politician must be judicious and wise, but at the same time decisive. Ilya Yashin is exactly such a person. The biography, nationality, career and personal life of this person will be the subjects of our discussion.
Parents and nationality
Ilya Yashin's parents were Valery Nikolaevich Yashin and Irina Yashina. The father of the future politician was born in Leningrad in 1941. For a long time he held the post of deputy head of the telephone service of his native city. After the collapse of the USSR, he was the general director of Petersburg Telephone Network OJSC until 1999, and then until 2006 he served as the head of Svyazinvest OJSC. Ilya Yashin’s mother was a co-founder of the Piter-Service company.
The nationality of Ilya Yashin remains a mystery, since he himself never directly stated it. Some consider him Russian, others - a Jew.
Birth and childhood
In June 1983, Ilya Yashin swarmed. The biography of this person dates back to this date.
Ilya Yashin studied at one of the Moscow schools with in-depth study of his native language and literature. At the same time, he studied at an art school. He received complete secondary education in 2000 and then entered the MNEPU, the Faculty of Political Science.
Beginning of political activity
Then he started his political activity Ilya Yashin. The biography of this person from that moment was connected with politics. In the same year, when Ilya entered the university, he became a member of the democratic-liberal political party “Yabloko”. The leader of this political force at that time was Grigory Yavlinsky.
Active and self-confident Ilya Yashin, despite his very young age, immediately gained authority in the party. In 2001, he became the head of the Moscow branch of Youth Yabloko. He took an active part in organizing party activities, participated in actions, and prepared programs.
Protest movement
“Down with police autocracy!” - this is the first truly major action in which Ilya Yashin took part in 2004. The biography of this person in the future will be full of similar actions. The same period of his life includes participation in an action protesting against the statement of the Minister of Defense on the need to abolish student deferments from the army. As part of this protest event, Yashin even shaved his head.
At this time, he begins to move up the party ladder. In 2003, he became a member of the council of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party. In the first half of 2005, Yashin was elected chairman of Youth Yabloko. At the same time, he founded the youth movement “Defense,” which was supposed to unite active youth protesting against the actions of government agencies. But a year later he was forced to leave Defense after a split in the movement.
Yashin conducted his activities not only on the territory. His biography speaks of participation in protest movements abroad, in particular in Belarus. Still in 2005, while participating in an action in Minsk, the purpose of which was to demand the democratization of Belarusian society, he was detained by law enforcement officers for several days.
In 2006, Ilya Yashin received a new promotion - he became a member of the federal bureau of the party.
Participation in elections
In 2005, Ilya Yashin participated in the elections to the Moscow Duma, but took only third place, gaining just over 14% of the votes.
In 2007, his candidacy could become one of the key ones in the parliamentary elections from the Yabloko party. But Ilya Yashin categorically refused to take part in the elections, citing the fact that the party was obliged to boycott them.
Leaving the Yabloko party
Significant complications in relations between Yashin and the leadership of Yabloko began back in 2007, when he refused to participate in the elections and declared that all party members should follow his example. The situation became even more tense that in the same year Yashin made a statement that he was ready to enter the fight for leadership in the party, sharply criticizing the current leaders of Yabloko, but then withdrew his candidacy.
The leadership of Yabloko had a sharply negative attitude towards the creation of a new movement, criticizing Ilya Yashin for splitting the opposition. At the same time, Yashin himself, on the contrary, stated that Solidarity and Yabloko are natural allies in the political struggle.
As part of the Solidarity movement, as before, Ilya Valerievich Yashin took part in many protests. His biography reports participation in protests in Kaliningrad in 2010, leadership of the “Putin Must Leave” action dating back to the same time, as well as activities during the protests on Triumfalnaya Square. He also took part in smaller scale actions. As a result of protest activities that were not authorized by the authorities, Ilya Yashin and his like-minded people were often arrested and detained by law enforcement agencies.
Participation in the activities of other political organizations
Without stopping his activities within the framework of the Solidarity movement, Ilya Yashin took part in the work of several other socio-political organizations of an oppositional nature and was their member.
In 2010, Ilya Yashin joined the ranks of the newly formed organization “People's Freedom Party”, whose leaders were Nemtsov, Ryzhkov and Kasyanov. The abbreviated name of this organization, of which Ilya Yashin became a member, is PARNAS. The biography of this oppositionist is still connected with his activities in this party.
True, the association has undergone significant reorganization more than once during its development. In 2012, it merged with the Republican Party of Russia, adopting the name RPR-PARNAS. In 2015, the movement officially registered, according to Russian law, as a political party, regaining the name PARNAS. The leader of this association was
In the fall of 2016, Ilya Yashin was supposed to take part in the elections to the State Duma on the list of the PARNAS party. But in April 2016, the world saw an obscene video, the participants of which were the leader of PARNAS Kasyanov and his assistant Pelevina N.V. The latter spoke very unflatteringly about Ilya Yashin. After this, Yashin said that after such a compromising video, Kasyanov should leave the post of head of the party, and until then, Ilya Valerievich himself is not going to take part in the party’s election campaign.
In addition, in 2012, Ilya Yashin was elected to the Coordination Council of the Opposition, the purpose of which is to unite various political forces in the fight against the authorities. In addition to Yashin, members of the council include such well-known oppositionists as Alexei Navalny, Garry Kasparov, Ksenia Sobchak, Lyubov Sobol, Boris Nemtsov (killed), Dmitry Bykov. In the elections for the head of the Coordination Council that same year, Yashin took fifth place, losing to Navalny.
Publications
Ilya Yashin is also widely known for his publications on political topics. Since 2005, his articles have been published in many Russian and foreign newspapers.
Yashin participated in writing the famous report “Putin. War" by B. Nemtsov. After the murder of this politician, it was Yashin who led the process of completing the writing of this work.
Already in 2016, he presented a report on the activities of Ramzan Kadyrov, in which he spoke sharply negatively about the leader of Chechnya. However, this report was harshly received by critics who argued that it was based on articles from the Internet, the reliability of the information in which is highly questionable.
Personal life
Now let's find out about the other side of the life of a person like Ilya Yashin. The biography and family of the politician are of interest to many, but marriage is not yet among his priorities, although he has already crossed the thirty-year mark.
In 2012, the press reported information about an intimate relationship between Yashin and Ksenia Sobchak. Later they both confirmed this information. There were facts that even indicated that they lived together for some time. But by the end of 2012, the relationship between Yashin and Sobchak reached a dead end. And the next year Ksenia married her son, Maxim.
Thus, Ilya Yashin currently continues to remain a bachelor.
general characteristics
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As we see, despite his youth, Ilya Yashin is currently one of the leaders of the non-systemic Russian opposition. Having started his political activity in the early 2000s, he has now become one of the leaders of the protest movement. Ilya Yashin managed to achieve this thanks to perseverance and perseverance, communication skills and the ability to convince people. Yes, this is not surprising, because he devotes most of his time to the party and social activities, but his personal life has so far been relegated to the background.
How Ilya Yashin’s fate as a politician will develop in the future, only time will tell. Perhaps this man will ascend to the Olympus of big politics, or perhaps he will sink into obscurity, like many before him.
Ilya Yashin was born into a wealthy Moscow family, graduated from a school with in-depth study of Russian language and literature, as well as an art school. At the same time, Ilya’s growing up took place against the backdrop of turbulent socio-political events that swept the country at that time. Under the influence of these events, the young man decided to become a politician and entered the International Independent Ecological and Political Science University.
Ilya had the opportunity to write his diploma work with the political scientist Sergei Chernyakhovsky, who was considered one of the first experts in the country on the opposition. Even then, Yashin saw his future in the “professional struggle” with the authorities and devoted his scientific work to the methods of organizing street protest. A little later, he graduated from graduate school at the Higher School of Economics, where his supervisor was Yuliy Nisnevich, known as a permanent expert on Radio Liberty and the Voice of America, who mercilessly criticizes the Russian government.
Already in his first year, Ilya Yashin joined the ranks of the Yabloko party, which was actively developing its youth wing. Almost immediately he headed the Moscow Youth Apple, and then joined the regional council of the Moscow branch of the party. Also, while a student, he became an assistant to a deputy of the famous public figure of the Moscow City Duma, Yevgeny Bunimovich, who later became the Commissioner for Children's Rights in Moscow.
After graduating from university, Yashin got a job as a columnist for Novaya Gazeta, and also published in other publications, mainly of a liberal persuasion. One of his first articles was published under the title “They even pass the session with giblets. The institution of snitching has been revived in universities.” In it, he argued that, on the initiative of the leadership of MSTU. Bauman, the pro-Kremlin movement “Young Russia” was created to suppress opposition activity at the university.
Ilya Yashin Russian politician
Yashin also received a promotion in the party, heading the all-Russian Youth Yabloko. At the same time, Ilya Valerievich, together with other activists, decided to organize his own movement, which became known as “Defense”. According to some reports, he very quickly found sponsors in the form of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Soros Open Society Foundation.
By the way, the organization chose a raised fist as its logo, very similar to the symbols of the protest movements in which the so-called color revolutions took place. In addition, “Defense” activists collaborated with the “We” movement, which existed with the money of ex-YUKOS owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and even held actions for the release of the oligarch who was in custody in those years. They proclaimed their main goal to be the organization of a nonviolent revolution in the country. However, Ilya Valerievich and a group of his associates pretty soon left the ranks of “Defense” due to disagreements that arose within the movement.
In general, Yashin’s activities in Yabloko most likely boiled down to protests. True, he made an attempt to enter the Moscow City Duma at the end of 2005 in electoral district No. 13, but in that election he took only third place. Basically, Yabloko showed his ambitions on the streets. He even published a brochure called “Street Protest,” which he addressed to his comrades as a training manual.
Back in his student years, Ilya Valerievich held the action “Down with the police autocracy!”, During which a portrait of Yuri Andropov was splashed with paint. And after the then Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov announced his intention to cancel student deferments from military service, Yashin publicly shaved “under zero” near the walls of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
It can be said that Yashin’s activities were also international in nature. Once he was arrested for several days in Belarus after he took part in an opposition march in Minsk, dispersed by local law enforcement officers. Sometimes the protest of the young politician was radical. So, speaking out against the possible successor of President Vladimir Putin, in 2007 he put on special fireproof clothing and set himself on fire, after which he was hospitalized.
Yabloko provided Ilya Yashin with extensive connections in opposition circles. In addition to meeting Alexei Navalny, who in those years was his party member and also took his first steps in politics, he became close friends with the daughter of the “main” reformer of Russia, Maria Gaidar, who worked closely with the youth wing of Grigory Yavlinsky’s organization. In particular, together with Gaidar, Yashin organized an action against changes in election legislation, using climbing equipment to hang a banner on the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge with the inscription “Give back the elections to the people, you bastards!” There were other oppositionists with whom the young politician worked closely, despite the fact that they did not belong to his party. In particular, when the organizer of the “March of Dissent” Garry Kasparov was arrested, Ilya Valerievich held a single picket in his defense near the building of the capital’s police department. True, law enforcement agencies quickly arrested the politician. They circumvented the fact that a single picket did not require approval by cunning, sending two more dummy participants to the picket.
Ilya Yashin - Apple
It must be said that within Yabloko, Yashin’s activity “on the side” was perceived ambiguously. In addition, Ilya Valerievich demonstratively sabotaged the elections to the State Duma, although the party offered him a place in the federal trio. In addition, he actually accused the organization’s leadership of coordinating its actions with “Putin’s office.” And already at the end of the same year, at the Moscow press conference of Yabloko, he not only continued to criticize the party rulers, but also expressed his readiness to fight for the post of party chairman.
In 2008, Yashin and a number of other Yabloko members, including the leader of the St. Petersburg regional branch, Maxim Reznik, took part in the work of the National Assembly of Opposition Forces, created on the initiative of the Other Russia organization as an “alternative parliament.” Grigory Yavlinsky, in the form of an ultimatum, criticized the actions of his comrades-in-arms and stated that cooperation with representatives of “The Other Russia” is unacceptable. On the eve of the election of the chairman of Yabloko, an internal party opposition actually formed. Ilya Yashin himself withdrew his candidacy in favor of Reznik, who also decided to undermine the position of the irreplaceable leader. However, the head of the Moscow branch, Sergei Mitrokhin, was elected as the new chairman of the party.
In December 2008, Ilya Yashin took part in the founding congress of the Solidarity movement and was elected to the bureau of the federal political council. The regional council of the Moscow organization Yabloko considered the uncoordinated activities of its comrade-in-arms unacceptable and expelled him from the party with the wording “causing political damage.” Mitrokhin stated that Ilya Yashin himself made the choice “of which organization he is a member of.” There were also those who showed support for the expelled man, in particular the same Reznik, as well as deputy chairman of the Moscow branch Alexei Klimenko, human rights activists Andrei Babushkin, Valery Borshchev and Tatyana Kotlyar and other Yabloko members. And the executive director of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Daniil Meshcheryakov, even left the ranks of the party as a sign of protest.
Ilya Valerievich now continued his political activities with new partners from Solidarity. In particular, Boris Nemtsov invited him to head the election headquarters for the mayoral elections of Sochi, in which the former Deputy Prime Minister took part. After Nemtsov managed to gain only 13.6% of the vote, the headquarters made a statement about numerous falsifications on the part of the authorities, related, in particular, to early voting and voting at home.
Ilya Yashin himself, with the support of Solidarity, made an attempt to take part in the elections to the Moscow City Duma. However, the election commission removed the oppositionist from the elections, invalidating all 100% of the signatures collected in his support. Along with him, 56 more opposition self-nominated candidates and 3 candidates from the Patriots of Russia party were not allowed to participate in those elections. The formal reason for the refusal to recognize the signature sheets as valid was the lack of interlinear text on them.
Street rallies
Ilya Valerievich did not abandon his street activity. In 2010, Yashin took part in a rally of thousands in Kaliningrad, at which he demanded the resignation of the government of then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and a little later he signed the appeal of the Russian opposition “Putin must leave.” Ilya Valerievich was repeatedly detained as a participant in protest marches and pickets. During the march on Russian Flag Day, the oppositionist even suffered a head injury while fighting with law enforcement agencies who tried to push him into a paddy wagon. He was also detained during single pickets by members of Solidarity and the Committee of Five Demands near the Government House in Moscow and was even fined for obscene language in a public place.
Ilya Yashin was also detained after a rally in support of Article 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, despite the fact that it was authorized. The thing is that the activists decided to move from the square to Tverskaya Street and to do this they tried to break through the chain of police. Ilya Valerievich was subjected to administrative arrest for five days on charges of disobedience to law enforcement agencies. The verdict was later appealed in court, during which police sergeant Artem Charukhin stated that he was forced to write a report about the oppositionist’s disobedience. However, after Charukhin was fired, he retracted his testimony and stated that he gave it under pressure from Yashin, who allegedly quoted him the biblical commandment about perjury. As a result, Ilya Valerievich’s complaint was rejected, and Amnesty International recognized him as a “prisoner of conscience.”
At some point, various kinds of incriminating evidence began to appear on Solidarity activists, often leading to provocations against them. Yashin was no exception in this sense. So a video appeared online in which he offers a bribe to traffic police officers in their official car. Ilya Valerievich did not deny his dialogue with the inspector, but at the same time pointed to the presence of video editing that distorted the essence of what was happening. The posted video was associated with the Nashi movement, since the then head of the organization Vasily Yakimenko left his commentary on the story.
Ilya Yashin - provocation
Ilya Yashin was also involved in a scandal involving journalist Mikhail Fishman. A video has appeared online in which Fishman, in the company of naked women, sniffs white powder. This time, Ilya Yashin himself stated that he was also in that apartment and made love with two girls, but at the same time refused the drugs offered. The oppositionist also appealed to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a demand to find and bring to justice the organizers and perpetrators of provocations. Soon, materials actually appeared on the Internet in which Yashin was with a girl, but the recording was made from another apartment. This time the provocateur turned out to be a certain Katya “Mumu”.
However, such scandals did not at all appease the politician’s ardor, but rather the opposite. He actively participated in the protest activity that began before the 2011 parliamentary elections. And when the voting took place, he was one of those who supported Alexei Navalny in organizing a rally on Chistoprudny Boulevard. During the rally, politicians began to call on all those gathered to march through Myasnitskaya Street to Lubyanka Square. Those who succumbed to these calls were detained, as well as the “agitators” themselves. Yashin and Navalny were found guilty of resisting law enforcement officers and received 15 days each. Later, the ECHR found the punishment disproportionate to the offenses committed.
One way or another, due to his arrest, Ilya Yashin was forced to miss the rally against unfair elections that took place on Bolotnaya Square. But he spoke at an event attended by thousands, held on Academician Sakharov Avenue, at which he stated that the opposition does not want civil war and the blood of opponents and called on the authorities to negotiate.
At the beginning of 2012, two more mass rallies “For Fair Elections” were held, at which Yashin called for Putin to be removed from power. In addition, he found himself at the head of a group of Solidarity activists, which hung a banner with the slogan “Putin, go away” on the roof of a house on Sofia Embankment opposite the Kremlin.
All this activity was related to the presidential elections that took place in March of that year. On the eve of the inauguration of the elected President, the so-called “March of Millions” was held, which grew into an opposition camp on Chistye Prudy next to the monument to Abai Kunanbayev, which received the secret name “Occupy Abay”, by analogy with the American movement Occupy Wall Street. Yashin was one of the most active participants in the camp and was even listed as a “commandant” there. However, the so-called “Occupy Abay” was closed by court decision due to complaints from residents of nearby houses, and the camp moved to Kudrinskaya Square, where it was dispersed, and Yashin, in turn, was detained and sentenced to 10 days of arrest.
Ilya Yashin and Ksenia Sobchak
At almost all rallies, Ilya Yashin appeared in the company of the famous “blonde in chocolate” in Russia, Ksenia Sobchak, who also decided to plunge into the protest movement. And in March 2012, a criminal case was opened against them for attacking Life News reporters. The oppositionists got into an altercation with journalists who tried to photograph them in one of the restaurants. However, the couple themselves posted photos together on social networks. And in the summer of 2012, searches were carried out in the apartment of the socialite, where Yashin was, during which at least 1 million euros were seized by operatives. According to the Investigative Committee, Ilya Valerievich was living in Sobchak’s apartment at that time.
Ksenia Sobchak and Ilya Yashin
In the fall of the same year, Yashin and Sobchak were elected to the Opposition Coordination Council (CCO). The elections were held using electronic voting, and the body itself was called upon to coordinate the actions of the protest forces. Ilya Valerievich entered the KSO on the general civilian list, taking fifth place in it. KSO did not work for long, and from the next year it ceased to exist, as did Yashin’s relationship with Sobchak.
Since 2013, protest activity has declined. And after Crimea returned to Russia in 2014, parties such as PARNAS, which did not support reunification with the peninsula, began to cause negativity among citizens. Ilya Valerievich himself stated that Crimea “is the territory of Ukraine, which was illegally annexed to Russia using armed forces and in violation of international obligations.”
Accordingly, the oppositionist also saw the Russian government as the culprit in the conflict in the East of Ukraine. Yashin even turned out to be a co-author of Boris Nemtsov’s report “Putin. War”, and after the murder of Nemtsov he headed the team of authors.
Ilya Yashin was convinced that the murder of his close ally was connected with the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, to whom he dedicated his next report, “Threat to National Security.” Even before the official presentation of the report, Ramzan Akhmatovich himself managed to get a copy of it and post it on his Instagram page, calling in the comments what was written “babble” and “gossip from the Internet.”
Political reform
The main achievement of the period of rally activity for Ilya Yashin and his associates was political reform, which, among other things, simplified the procedure for registering parties. Back in 2010, the leaders of the liberal opposition, Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Ryzhkov and Mikhail Kasyanov, formed the People's Freedom Party (PARNAS), which Yashin joined. Now the party finally has the opportunity to get into the register of the Ministry of Justice, through a merger with the recently registered Republican Party of Vladimir Ryzhkov. The new political force was named “RPR-PARNAS”, and Yashin became deputy chairman of the party. And in 2015, an independent political force, Parnas, appeared, headed by Mikhail Kasyanov.
The Parnassovites also took advantage of the second opportunity provided by the political reform, deciding to take part in regional elections. To do this, in 2015 they united in a coalition with the Progress Party and the Democratic Choice party. However, elections with the participation of Parnassus took place only in the Kostroma region, where Ilya Yashin became the leader of the list. He topped the list as a result of a preliminary vote, which was sharply condemned by the Kostroma opposition, dejected by the fact that a Muscovite, who took advantage of the party’s federal resources, left no chance for local politicians. The result of the liberal opposition in those elections was 2% of the local vote.
But Ilya Yashin no longer had to go to the 2016 federal parliamentary elections. The reason for this was the serious internal party crisis of Parnas, which was preceded by a documentary film on NTV called “Kasyanov’s Day.” The film told about the relationship between the head of Parnassus, Mikhail Kasyanov, and party member Natalya Pelevina. Both were filmed with a hidden camera in an intimate setting. At the same time, Pelevina spoke negatively about Ilya Valerievich, calling him “complete scum,” because of which people in the party are changing for the worse. It also followed from the conversation that Ilya Yashin promised to sell his place in the election campaign for 30 thousand dollars. And in Pelevina’s correspondence with Kasyanov, which was also presented in the film, the woman called co-chairman Parnas a “gnome” and claimed that he was a “lobbyist for Navalny’s interests.”
As a result, Yashin demanded that Kasyanov give up first place on the party’s electoral list and exclude blogger Vyacheslav Maltsev from it. The party leader ignored the demands of his fellow party member. As a result, Ilya Yashin himself refused to participate in the preliminary voting of PARNAS. In those elections, Kasyanov’s party did not gain even one percent, and already in the winter of that year Ilya Yashin himself and a number of Nemtsov’s former supporters left it.
But the liberal opposition coalition in the 2017 Moscow City Duma elections turned out to be more successful. Yashin, together with politician Dmitry Gudkov, supported candidates from Yabloko, PARNAS and the parliamentary opposition. As a result, in 17 Moscow districts the majority in municipal councils was made up of representatives of their “team”. Ilya Valerievich himself was not only elected as a deputy of the Council of Deputies of the Krasnoselsky District, but also headed it. At the same time, he called for the creation of a congress of independent deputies of Moscow. In addition, he announced that his plans include a bill to eliminate “golden parachutes” for Moscow officials. He also proposed launching a social taxi for people with limited mobility in the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow.
Free Election Day
But Yashin could not live in peaceful coexistence with his comrades for a long time. Already at the end of 2017, he, as the head of the Krasnoselsky municipal district, announced the holding of a regional holiday: “Free Election Day” on December 24, which would be held in Lermontovsky Park. However, when other politicians not from the Krasnoselsky district began to campaign for him, the local event in the eyes of the authorities began to resemble a political rally. The mayor's office called the action illegal, and the police warned of possible arrests. Dmitry Gudkov volunteered to help Yashin, who tried to coordinate a rally on Sakharov Avenue. However, Ilya Yashin himself considered Gudkov’s event “spoiler” and almost accused his colleague of colluding with the Moscow mayor’s office.
As a result, Yashin changed the format of the event to “a meeting of citizens without any approval.” About 300 people came to Lermontovsky Square, half of whom were journalists and bloggers. Ilya Yashin himself was detained, and the police filed an administrative violation against him. And during the New Year holidays, he reported that law enforcement agencies came to his parents for searches.
Ilya Valerievich Yashin from the very beginning political career focused on street protests and various political actions. These methods are very close to youth political forces, of which he was a representative for a long time. But Ilya Yashin has clearly outgrown his status as a young activist, and at the same time his ambitions have grown. Until now, he has occupied all more or less high positions in opposition organizations. And now he has finally taken the post of chairman of the council of deputies in one of the central regions of Moscow. How he will be able to take advantage of new opportunities is a big question. Previously, his plans were often hampered by the inability to come to an agreement with his political comrades - an ailment that plagues the entire Russian opposition.
Family
He is not in a registered marriage. According to media reports, the father - Valery Yashin, - former general director of OJSC Svyazinvest and OJSC Petersburg Telephone Network, mother - Tatyana Yashina, sister Natalya Yashina.
Biography
Ilya Yashin was born in Moscow on June 29, 1983, where he graduated from a secondary school with in-depth study of the Russian language and literature and an art school.
In 2000, he entered the political science department of the International Independent Ecological and Political Science University (MNEPU). In 2005, he defended his diploma on methods of organizing street protests.
Since June 2005, Ilya Yashin has been a columnist for Novaya Gazeta. Yashin's columns were also published in The New Times and Gazeta. Ru, Daily Journal, RBC-daily, The Moscow Times and others.
In 2007, he entered graduate school at the Higher School of Economics, Department of Applied Political Science.
Policy
In 2000, Ilya Yashin joined the Yabloko party, where he proved himself to be an active member and supporter of street actions. At Yabloko, Yashin was involved in youth work.
In 2001-2005, Yashin served as head of the Moscow Youth Apple. In 2005-2008, Yashin headed the all-Russian Youth Yabloko.
Since 2003, Yashin has been a member of the regional council of the Moscow branch of Yabloko. In addition, from 2002 to 2006 he was an assistant to a Moscow City Duma deputy. Evgeniy Bunimovich.
On March 12, 2005, Ilya Yashin became one of the founders and a member of the coordinating council of the youth public movement "Defense", from which he left as a result of a split in February of the following year.
In the fall of 2005, Yashin ran for deputy of the Moscow City Duma in electoral district No. 13 (University), but lost the election.
In 2007, he refused to participate in the elections to the State Duma on the Yabloko list, although his entry into the federal three was discussed. In December 2007, Yashin openly criticized the Yabloko leadership and declared his readiness to fight for the post of party chairman.
In December 2008, Yashin was expelled from the Yabloko party by a decision of the regional council of the Moscow organization with the wording “causing political damage.”
Some Yabloko members supported the position of Ilya Yashin: they spoke out in support of him Sergey Kovalev And Victor Sheinis, human rights activists Andrey Babushkin, Valery Borshchev And Tatiana Kotlyar, head of the St. Petersburg branch Maxim Reznik, deputy chairman of the Moscow branch Alexey Klimenko, and some other activists. The executive director of the Moscow Helsinki Group left the ranks of Yabloko in protest Daniil Meshcheryakov. A Soviet dissident spoke out in support of Yashin Vladimir Bukovsky.
Over the years of work at Yabloko, Ilya Yashin has repeatedly appeared in high-profile PR campaigns directed against the government policy.
In August 2004, an action was held under the slogan “Down with the police autocracy!”, carried out by Youth Yabloko, during which a memorial plaque with a portrait of Yuri Andropov was poured with paint.
On January 25, 2005, Yashin held the action “Shaving Against Conscription” - Yashin publicly shaved himself to zero near the walls of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces in protest against the government’s plans to deprive students of deferments.
On November 23, 2006, the “Action on the Bridge” took place: together with Yashin, he stretched out the banner “Give back the elections to the people, you bastards!”
On September 12, 2007, Yashin committed a symbolic self-immolation on the Sofiyskaya embankment in Moscow and was hospitalized with minor burns.
Yashin began a new round of his political career in the Solidarity movement.
In December 2008, Ilya Yashin took part in the founding congress of Solidarity and was elected to the bureau of the federal political council.
In March-April 2009, Yashin headed the headquarters in the elections for the mayor of Sochi.
In July 2009, with the support of Solidarity, he put forward his candidacy for the elections of deputies of the Moscow City Duma of the fifth convocation in single-mandate district No. 14, but the election commission removed Yashin from the elections, invalidating all the signatures collected in support of his registration.
In 2010, Ilya Yashin joined PARNAS and became an active participant in “dissent marches” and other opposition rallies held in Moscow.
Since 2011, Yashin has been an active member of street actions of “dissenters” and one of his closest associates.
On December 5, 2011, Yashin, along with Alexei Navalny, were detained after a rally on Chistoprudny Boulevard, sanctioned by the authorities and held by the Solidarity movement. The court found Yashin, and later Navalny, guilty of resisting law enforcement officers and imposed 15 days of administrative arrest as a punishment.
Ilya Yashin has been under the close attention of foreign human rights activists since 2005, as evidenced by the fact that he was repeatedly recognized as a “prisoner of conscience” by Amnesty International, and the ECHR petitioned for him.
On December 24, 2011, he spoke at a protest meeting of many thousands in Moscow, held on Academician Sakharov Avenue.
On February 1, 2012, Ilya Yashin, at the head of a group of activists from the Solidarity movement, hung a banner with the slogan “Putin, go away” in front of the Kremlin. The banner was installed on the roof of a house on Sofia Embankment.
On October 22, 2012, in the elections of the Coordination Council of the Opposition, he took fifth place on the general civil list, gaining 32.4 thousand votes, losing to Navalny, Bykov, Kasparov and Sobchak.
In October 2013, he announced his readiness to run for the Moscow City Duma in 2014.
During the “Crimean Spring” of 2014, Yashin opposed the reunification of Crimea with Russia.
On May 26, 2015, during the presentation of Boris Nemtsov’s report “Putin. War” at the Kiev-Mohyla Academy, Yashin sharply criticized Russia for its foreign policy towards Ukraine, saying that “of course, Crimea is the territory of Ukraine, which is illegally annexed to Russia, using armed forces and violating international obligations."
In 2015, RPR-PARNAS entered into an agreement to create a democratic coalition with the Progress Party and Democratic Choice and nominated lists of candidates in 4 regions - Kaluga, Kostroma, Magadan and Novosibirsk. Lists of candidates in the Kaluga, Kostroma and Novosibirsk regions were nominated based on the results of open primaries.
On July 27, the election commission of the Novosibirsk region refused to register the list of candidates, considering some of the collected signatures invalid. However, elections with the participation of Parnassus took place only in the Kostroma region, where the leader of the list, Ilya Yashin, barely collected 2 percent of the votes.
On February 23, 2016, in Moscow, Yashin presented a report on the head of Chechnya entitled “Threat to National Security.” Kadyrov himself obtained the text of the report on the eve of its presentation and published it in advance on his official Instagram page; in comments to the media he called Yashin’s report “babble” and “gossip from the Internet.”
Income
Yashin's official declaration has not been made public.
He himself speaks about his income as follows: “As for my earnings, there is no secret here either. I have a degree in political science - that’s what feeds me. Most of my income comes from political analytics, which I prepare for various non-profit structures. I note that foreign organizations Not among them, I have never received a penny of foreign money."
Rumors and scandals
On March 17, 2009, an anonymous user published a video on the Internet in which Ilya Yashin allegedly offers a bribe to traffic police officers in their official car. Yashin himself called the video “provocative.”
In 2010, Yashin became a victim of a provocateur Kati-Mumu.
"Katya - a pretty, long-legged brunette - made an impression on me and for a couple of weeks we had an easy relationship with her. We went to the movies, had dinner at a restaurant. One Saturday evening I picked her up from the club and drove her home by car - to the same apartment not far from Kolomenskaya metro station. There we slept with her", Yashin said later.
On April 26, 2010, Ilya Yashin filed an application to initiate a criminal case with the Prosecutor General's Office due to the publication of scandalous videos online.
On June 11, 2012, in the apartment where Yashin was at that moment and where, according to the Investigative Committee, he actually lived, at least 1 million euros were seized during a search by operatives.
November 17, 2012, 08:03We all know Ilya Yashin, especially now, when he has been the young man of our Ksyusha Sobchak for almost a year, and if we know everything about Ksenia, from where and when she was born, how she grew up, who she was raised by, and ending with all her novels and places of work, and even the fact that she was never lucky enough to become the goddaughter of the current president, we know almost nothing about Ilya Yashin, except that he is an oppositionist. Unfortunately, this ignorance gives rise to strange rumors, conclusions and conversations. I would like to dispel some rumors a little and talk about him. 
So Ilya Yashin. What does Wikipedia tell us? Russian opposition politician, one of the founders and member of the Bureau of the Federal Political Council of the Solidarity Movement (since 2008), since June 2012 also a member of the Bureau of the FPS of the RPR-PARNAS party. In October 2012, he was elected to the Opposition Coordination Council. From 2006 to 2008 he was a member of the federal bureau of the Yabloko party. He was one of the founders of the Defense movement and the leader of the Youth Apple. Specialist in street political struggle under authoritarian regimes. He is also known for a number of political actions, for example, the “Give back the elections to the people, you bastards!” 2006.
Well, now in more detail. Born and lives in Moscow. He graduated from a regular school, after which he entered the International Independent Ecological and Political Science University (MNEPU), has a diploma in political science, and since 2007 has been a graduate student at the Higher School of Economics in the department of applied political science. For a long time he was an activist of Yabloko, from which he was expelled for criticizing the party leadership about the lack of a real struggle. After Yabloko, together with Nemtsov, Kasparov and Bukovsky, he organized the Solidarity United Movement of Movements, of which he is still a member. Thanks to Internet voting and etc. on the Dozhd TV channel, he was elected to the Constitutional Court. 
Very often you can hear the questions “What does Ilya Yashin live on? How does he earn money?”, In fact, everything is simple, he is often invited to give lectures on the political situation in Russia at various universities in Europe and the USA. In addition, he is a regular columnist for Novaya Gazeta, and his articles can also be found in other political newspapers. He writes very interestingly. To get acquainted, I suggest reading his articles on the website of the Russian Pioneer magazine, both of which very accurately characterize him. Well, an article for "Grani" Grandfather and a hooligan which says a lot about his political views. He appears on radio stations Finam, Echo and Silver Rain, and he is also invited to appear on television on various political programs. 
The most common rumor is, of course, “Yashin was born into the family of an oligarch, his dad stole people’s money.” This question was best answered by Ilya’s mother, who gave an interview to Strong Man magazine: “We are the most ordinary family. Previously, we worked at a research institute. I am a proofreader, my husband is a builder. Now I'm a housewife. One of Ilya’s grandfathers was a driver, the other was a plumber.” You can read the entire interview on the magazine’s website, keep in mind that it’s two pages long. 
Last year, the United Russia party drew caricatures of them, including Ilya Yashin, to discredit the opposition. This is what Ilya himself answered to this: “Yes, it happens. They just take me away for my civic position. And the United Russia members themselves are usually tried for bribes: for example, Governor Dudka.” Indeed, Ilya was arrested more than once, for which Amnesty International called him a Prisoner of Conscience three times. “The organization considers them prisoners of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of their right to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression,” and even the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights asked Russian Federation questions regarding the illegal detention of I. Yashin and A. Navalny. 
Ksenia Sobchak has already told everything about her relationship with Yashin in an interview with Hello magazine, but about her relationship with Sobchak, Yashin spoke on Dozhd, in Anatomy of Protest and Love. As already written, Ksenia Sobchak is a renowned ninja of oral presentation, and it is difficult to talk her down, but he managed to insert a few words, at least about what he previously considered Ksenia to be “Putin’s glamor doll.” By the way, she is not taller than him, they are about the same height, only Ksenia almost always wears heels. 
Regarding Ksyusha’s residence and the lack of his own home, Ilya has an apartment in Moscow on Yaroslavskoe Highway, where he lived alone, and at the time of the search at Sobchak’s, it was also searched, naturally without the owner, everyone knows where he was at that time time. A computer and an iPad, a camera, flash cards, many documents, brochures, books, and all the money in the apartment disappeared from the apartment. Nothing is known about the history of these things, unlike Ksenia’s money. 
Well, a few little things about Ilya Yashin. - He has a black cat Varka living at home. - Ilya does not understand modern art. - Has different Political Views with Ksenia Sobchak. - Somewhere there is his scandalous sex video with two girls. Its origin and participants are described