Ilya Yashin

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Ilya Yashin
Илья Яшин
Yashin in 2021
Chairman of the Council of Deputies of Krasnoselsky district
In office 7 October 2017 – 27 July 2021
Member of the Council of Deputies of Krasnoselsky district
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 October 2017
Leader of PARNAS
In office 2012–2016
Personal details
Born	(1983-06-29) 29 June 1983 (age 40) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Citizenship	Russia
Political party	Yabloko (2000—2008) PARNAS (2010–2016) Independent (2008–2010, since 2016)
Other political affiliations	Solidarnost (since 2008)
Residence	Moscow
Alma mater	International Independent Ecological-Politological University, graduate school of the National Research University – Higher School of Economics
Signature
Website	Yashin's mayoral campaign

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.^[1]

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.^[2][3][4][5] 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.^[6]