Yashin Ilya Valerievich. Biography

Ilya Yashin was born into a wealthy Moscow family, graduated from a school with an in-depth study of the 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 then swept the country. Under the influence of these events, the young man decided to become a politician and entered the International Independent Environmental and Political University.

Ilya had a chance to write his thesis with the political scientist Sergei Chernyakhovsky, who was considered one of the country's first experts on the opposition. Even then, Yashin saw his future in a "professional struggle" with the authorities and devoted his scientific work to the method of organizing a street protest. A little later, he also graduated from the HSE graduate school, where his supervisor was Yuli Nisnevich, known as a permanent expert on Radio Liberty and Voice of America, who mercilessly criticizes the Russian government.

Already in his first year, Ilya Yashin joined the ranks of the Yabloko party, which actively developed its youth wing. Almost immediately, he headed the Moscow Youth Apple, and then entered the regional council of the Moscow branch of the party. Also, as a student, he became an assistant to the deputy of the well-known public figure of the Moscow City Duma Yevgeny Bunimovich, who later became the Commissioner for Children's Rights in Moscow.

After graduation, Yashin got a job as a columnist for Novaya Gazeta, and also published in other publications, mostly of a liberal persuasion. One of his first articles was published under the title “They even rent a session with giblets. The institution of squealing has been revived in universities.” In it, he argued that, at the initiative of the leadership of the Moscow State Technical University. 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 Valeryevich, together with other activists, decided to organize his own movement, which became known as "Defence". According to some reports, he very quickly found sponsors in the person 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 a logo, very similar to the symbols of the protest movements in which the so-called color revolutions took place. In addition, Oborona activists collaborated with the We movement, which existed on the money of the ex-owner of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and even held actions for the release of the oligarch who was in custody in those years. As their main goal, they proclaimed the organization of a non-violent revolution in the country. However, Ilya Valerievich with a group of his associates left the ranks of the "Defense" quite soon due to disagreements that arose within the movement.

In general, Yashin's activities at Yabloko were more like protests. True, an attempt was made on his part to get into the Moscow City Duma at the end of 2005 in constituency No. 13, but in those elections 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 associates as a manual.

Even in his student years, Ilya Valerievich carried out the action “Down with the police autocracy!”, During which the portrait of Yuri Andropov was filled with paint. And after the then Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov announced his intention to cancel student deferrals from military service, Yashin publicly shaved "under zero" at the walls of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.

We can say 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 rally in Minsk, dispersed by local law enforcement officers. Sometimes the young politician's protest was radical. So, speaking out against a possible successor to President Vladimir Putin, in 2007 he put on special fireproof clothes 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 Russia's "main" reformer, Maria Gaidar, who worked closely with the youth wing of Grigory Yavlinsky's organization. In particular, together with Gaidar Yashin, he organized an action against changes in the electoral legislation, using climbing equipment, hanging a banner on the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge with the inscription "Return 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 Valeryevich held a single picket in his defense near the building of the capital's police department. True, law enforcement agencies then quickly arrested the politician. The fact that a single picket does not require approval, they circumvented by cunning, sending two more dummy participants to the picketer.

Ilya Yashin - Apple

It must be said that inside Yabloko, Yashin's activity "on the side" was perceived ambiguously. In addition, Ilya Valeryevich defiantly sabotaged the elections to the State Duma, although the party offered him a place in the federal troika. 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 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 an ultimatum form, criticized the actions of his associates and stated that cooperation with representatives of the Other Russia was unacceptable. On the eve of the election of the chairman of Yabloko, an inner-party opposition actually formed. Ilya Yashin himself withdrew his candidacy in favor of Reznik, who also decided to shake the position of the irremovable leader. However, the head of the Moscow branch, Sergei Mitrokhin, was elected 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 unacceptable the uncoordinated activities of his colleague and expelled him from the party with the wording "causing political damage." Mitrokhin stated that Ilya Yashin himself made the choice "which organization he is a member of." There were also those who showed support for the expelled, in particular the same Reznik, as well as the deputy chairman of the Moscow branch Alexei Klimenko, human rights activists Andrei Babushkin, Valery Borshchev and Tatyana Kotlyar and other Yabloko activists. And the executive director of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Daniil Meshcheryakov, even left the party himself in protest.

Ilya Valeryevich now continued his political activities with new partners from Solidarity. In particular, Boris Nemtsov offered him to head the election headquarters in the elections for the mayor of Sochi, in which the former deputy prime minister took part. After Nemtsov managed to collect only 13.6% of the votes, 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 withdrew the oppositionist from the elections, invalidating all 100% of the signatures collected in his support. Along with him, another 56 self-nominated opposition candidates and 3 candidates from the Patriots of Russia party were not admitted to those elections. The formal reason for the refusal to recognize the signature sheets as valid was the absence of an interlinear on them.

street rallies

Ilya Valeryevich did not leave his street activity either. In 2010, Yashin took part in a rally of many thousands in Kaliningrad, at which he demanded the resignation of the government of the then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and a little later signed the appeal of the Russian opposition "Putin must go." Ilya Valeryevich was repeatedly detained as a participant in protest marches and pickets. During the procession on the Day of the Russian flag, the oppositionist even received a head injury while fighting law enforcement agencies who tried to stuff him into a paddy wagon. He was also detained during one-man 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 the action in support of Article 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, despite the fact that it was sanctioned. The thing is that the activists decided to move from the square to Tverskaya Street and for this they tried to break through the police chain. Ilya Valeryevich was subjected to administrative arrest for five days on charges of disobedience to law enforcement agencies. Later, the verdict was appealed in court, during which police sergeant Artem Charukhin stated that he had been forced to write a report about the disobedience of the oppositionist. However, after Charukhin was fired, he retracted his testimony and stated that he gave them under pressure from Yashin, who allegedly quoted him the biblical commandment about perjury. As a result, Ilya Valeryevich was denied satisfaction of his complaint, and Amnesty International recognized him as a "prisoner of conscience."

At some point, various kinds of compromising evidence began to appear against the Solidarity activists, and it often came to provocations against them. Yashin was no exception in this sense. So a video appeared on the network in which he offers a bribe to traffic police officers in their official car. Ilya Valeryevich did not deny his dialogue with the inspector, but at the same time he pointed to the presence of video editing, which distorted the essence of what was happening. The posted video was linked to the Nashi movement, as the then head of the organization, Vasily Yakimenko, left his commentary on the story.

Ilya Yashin - provocation

Ilya Yashin was involved in a scandal involving journalist Mikhail Fishman. A video appeared on the network in which Fishman, in the company of naked women, sniffs a 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 he refused the offered drugs. The oppositionist also appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office with a demand to find and bring to justice the organizers and perpetrators of the provocations. Soon, materials actually appeared on the network on which Yashin was with a girl, but the recording was made from another apartment. This time it turned out to be a provocateur, a certain Katya "Mumu".

However, such scandals did not at all reason with the ardor of the politician, but rather the opposite. He actively participated in the protest activity that emerged 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 action, politicians began to call on all those who had gathered to march through Myasnitskaya Street to Lubyanskaya 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 recognized the punishment as disproportionate to the offenses committed.

One way or another, but because of the arrest, Ilya Yashin was forced to miss the rally against unfair elections, which took place on Bolotnaya Square. But he spoke at an event of many thousands held on Akademik Sakharov Avenue, at which he said that the opposition did not want to 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” took place, at which Yashin called for the removal of Putin from power. In addition, he was at the head of a group of Solidarity activists, which posted a banner with the slogan "Putin, go away" on the roof of a house on Sofiyskaya Embankment opposite the Kremlin.

All this activity was connected with the presidential elections, which took place in March of the same 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 Kunanbaev, which received the unspoken name "OccupyAbay", by analogy with the American Occupy Wall Street movement. Yashin was one of the most active participants in the camp and was even listed as a “commandant” in it. However, the so-called "Occupy Abay" was closed by a court decision due to a complaint 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 well-known in Russia "blonde in chocolate" - Ksenia Sobchak, who also decided to plunge into the protest movement. And in March 2012, they were prosecuted for assaulting Life News reporters. The opposition got into a skirmish with journalists who tried to photograph them in one of the restaurants. However, the couple herself posted a joint photo in 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 at that time lived in Sobchak's apartment.

Ksenia Sobchak and Ilya Yashin

In the autumn of the same year, Yashin and Sobchak were elected to the Opposition Coordinating Council (CCO). The elections were held with the help of electronic voting, and the body itself was called upon to coordinate the actions of the protest forces. Ilya Valeryevich entered the KSO according to the general civil list, taking fifth place in it. KSO did not work long, and from the next year it ceased to exist, as did Yashin's relationship with Sobchak.

Starting in 2013, protest activity began to decline. And after Crimea returned to Russia in 2014, such parties as PARNAS, which did not support reunification with the peninsula, began to cause negative feelings among citizens. Ilya Valeryevich himself stated that Crimea "is the territory of Ukraine, which is illegally annexed to Russia with the use of armed forces and in violation of international obligations."

Accordingly, the oppositionist also saw the Russian authorities 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 group of authors.

Ilya Yashin was convinced that the murder of his close associate was connected with the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, to whom he dedicated his next report, "The 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 "boltology" and "gossip from the Internet."

Political reform

The main achievement of the period of rally activity for Ilya Yashin and his associates was the 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 also joined. Now the party has finally got the opportunity to get into the register of the Ministry of Justice, by merging with the newly 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, the independent political force Parnassus, headed by Mikhail Kasyanov, appeared.

The Parnassians took advantage of the second opportunity offered by the political reform, deciding to take part in the regional elections. To do this, in 2015 they united in a coalition with the Progress Party and the Democratic Choice Party. However, the elections with the participation of "Parnassus" were held only in the Kostroma region, where Ilya Yashin became the leader of the list. He headed 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 used the party's federal resources, left no chance for local politicians. The result of the liberal opposition in those elections was 2% of the votes of local voters.

But Ilya Yashin no longer had to go to the federal parliamentary elections in 2016. The reason for this was a serious intra-party crisis of Parnassus, which was preceded by documentary on NTV, bearing the name "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 cited in the film, the woman called Parnas’s co-chairman a “dwarf” and claimed that he was “a lobbyist for Navalny’s interests.”

As a result, Yashin demanded that Kasyanov give up the 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 former Nemtsov supporters left it.

But the coalition of the liberal opposition in the elections to the Moscow City Duma in 2017 turned out to be more successful. Yashin, together with politician Dmitry Gudkov, supported the candidates from Yabloko, PARNAS and the parliamentary opposition. As a result, in 17 Moscow districts, the majority in the municipal councils was precisely the representatives of their “team”. Ilya Valeryevich himself was not only elected 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 he plans to include a bill to eliminate the "golden parachutes" for Moscow officials. He also proposed to launch a social taxi for people with limited mobility in the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow.

Free Election Day

But Yashin could not stay in peaceful coexistence with his associates 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: "Day of Free Elections" on December 24, which would be held in Lermontovsky Square. However, when other politicians outside the Krasnoselsky district began campaigning for him, the local event began to resemble a political rally in the eyes of the authorities. 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 the 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 which 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 said that law enforcement agencies came to his parents with searches.

Ilya Valerievich Yashin from the very beginning of his political career emphasized street protests and various political actions. These methods are very close to the youth political forces, of which he was a representative for a long time. But Ilya Yashin has clearly outgrown the status of a young activist, and at the same time, his ambitions have also grown. Until now, he has occupied 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 districts of Moscow. How he will be able to take advantage of new opportunities is a big question. Previously, his plans were often hindered by the inability to come to an agreement with his political associates - an ailment that the entire Russian opposition suffers without exception.

Solidarity member Ilya Yashin intends to run for municipal deputies from the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow. The opposition activist continues to raise money for his project by posting his bank account details on social media. Until now, he has not been able to get elected anywhere: neither to the regional Legislative Assembly, nor to the district councils, not to mention the elections to the State Duma.

Ilya Yashin was born in Moscow in 1983. In 2005, he graduated from the political science department of the International Independent Ecological and Political Science University (MNEPU), having defended a diploma in the methodology of organizing a street protest. He worked as a columnist for Novaya Gazeta and The New Times.

In 2007, Yashin entered the graduate school of the Higher School of Economics, where Yuly Nisnevich was his supervisor. Yashin's mentor is a member of the board of the Transparency International-R Center for Anti-Corruption Research and Initiatives, a frequent guest on Ukrainian talk shows and one of the leading analysts for Radio Liberty and Voice of America. Nisnevich takes an open pro-American position, believing that Russia has "fallen out of civilizational reality" forever.

"Apple" and "Defense"

While still a student, in 2000, Yashin joined Yabloko, becoming one of the main organizers of the party's street actions. Ilya's oppositional agility was noted in the party leadership and he was appointed head of the Moscow Youth Yabloko.

The street actions organized by Yashin were radical, sometimes with clear signs of vandalism. So, in August 2004, he, along with other young "Yabloko" to the cries of "Down with the police autocracy!" poured paint over a memorial plaque with a portrait of Yuri Andropov. Activists also spoke out against conscripted military service. In November 2006, Yashin and Maria Gaidar, with the help of climbing equipment, descended from the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge and unfurled a banner on which it was written "Give back the elections to the people, bastards!". After the action, both of them were detained by the police and soon released. According to the former leader of the "apple" youth, the party paid $300 a month for organizing street protests.

In 2005, Yashin headed the all-Russian Youth Yabloko. At the same time, he became one of the founders of the Defense movement, an organization funded, in particular, by US government funds. The “Defense” symbolism (a clenched fist raised up) is completely identical to the logos of foreign protest movements that led the “color revolutions” in Egypt, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Yugoslavia.

With the money of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Soros Open Society Foundation, Yashin and other "defenders" organized dozens of anti-Russian actions. They declared their main task to be the organization of a non-violent revolution in our country. "Defense" also participated in anti-government protests in Belarus. During the opposition procession "Chernobyl Way" in Minsk in April 2005, Yashin and several of his associates in the "Defense" were detained by Belarusian police. The court sentenced them to administrative arrest, but they were soon released from custody and deported to Moscow.

By 2012, "Defence" actually ceased to exist. It is noteworthy that at the same time, USAID activities were curtailed in Russia. On the basis of "Defence" in 2013 in St. Petersburg, the movement "Spring" was created.

Yashin at one time was naturally suspected of receiving money from the oligarchs. Oborona activists collaborated with the We movement, whose activities were sponsored by ex-YUKOS owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky. From April to September 2005, Oborona held a series of actions in support of the oligarch, who was imprisoned for fraud, embezzlement of other people's property, tax evasion and other crimes. Member of the board of directors of YUKOS Leonid Nevzlin, sentenced in absentia in the Russian Federation to life imprisonment for organizing a series of murders and assassination attempts, spoke of Yashin as a "promising young politician."

Ilya has always been partial to criminals. For example, in 2013 he, along with other pro-Western liberals, criticized the arrest of the former mayor of Yaroslavl, Yevgeny Urlashov, who was subsequently convicted of bribery. At a rally in support of the bribe-taking official Yashin shouted that the "people's mayor" was arrested on the personal order of the President of the Russian Federation. "We are all in the dungeons, it's time to destroy this prison," the opposition activist shook the air.

Yashin and Navalny

At Yabloko, Yashin also met Alexei Navalny. On December 5, 2011, the then former members of the same party were detained after an agreed-upon rally of Solidarity on Chistoprudny Boulevard. Accomplices tried to arrange a provocation in the center of Moscow. At the end of the rally, Yashin from the stage called on all those gathered to march through Myasnitskaya Street to Lubyanka Square. Many of those who succumbed to Yashin's call were detained by the police.

The court found Yashin and Navalny guilty of resisting law enforcement officers and arrested them for 15 days. The provocateurs complained to the European Court of Human Rights. The ECHR decided to pay the instigators of the riots from the Russian budget 26,000 euros each. In June 2015, Yashin and Navalny received one and a half million state rubles each. Yashin himself does not like to talk about the sources of his income. According to the oppositionist, he is fed by a diploma in political science.

Opposition Coordinating Council

The finest hour for Yashin was the rallies on Bolotnaya. A member of Solidarity also has a romantic story connected with the protests. In October 2012, Ilya was elected a member of the Coordinating Council of the opposition, which also included Ksenia Sobchak. At winter street actions, the TV presenter smeared Yashin's lips with hygienic lipstick, the couple published joint photos on trains. The press discussed their possible marriage.

During a search in Sobchak's apartment, which took place as part of the case of the riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, law enforcement officers, in addition to large sums of money, found the journalist and Yashin in the apartment. The collapse of the extramarital union of the senator's daughter and the "fighter against the regime" coincided in time with the self-dissolution of the Opposition Coordinating Council.

Obviously, Yashin's relationship with some CSR colleagues was not as pleasant as with Sobchak. Former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev once accused the ex-head of the Moscow branch of PARNAS of provocations directed against Yabloko and disruption of inter-party agreements. In the run-up to the 2015 Novosibirsk mayoral election, Yashin accused Yabloko of allied with members of the Restrukt nationalist movement.

Later, Ponomarev also Yashin was a parasite, talking about his opposition activities. In addition, the former parliamentarian believes that the pride of a Solidarity member does not allow him to admit his own mistakes. Ponomarev made such a statement in the context of the scandal that broke out between Yashin and the economist Andrei Illarionov, accusing former CSR colleague for slander, perjury and betrayal. The conflict arose because of the conflicting testimony of Yashin in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov. Illarionov noted that immediately after the tragedy, on February 28, 2015, Yashin stated that he had talked with Nemtsov's companion Anna Duritskaya. According to the opposition activist, it was she who told him how the murder happened. However, Yashin later stated that he had only talked with Duritskaya for a minute, she was hysterical and could not provide any details about Nemtsov's death.

Exit from Apple. Scandals in PARNAS

Over the past 12 years, Ilya Yashin has been trying to get elected to at least some government bodies, from municipal councils to participation in the Duma elections. However, the opposition activist became the subject of new scandals, and not the people's choice.

In 2005 and 2009, Yashin lost the elections to the Moscow City Duma. In 2007, he refused to participate in the elections to the State Duma on the Yabloko list. He openly criticized the leadership of the party, declaring his readiness to fight for the post of its chairman. Yashin's actions "Yabloko" regarded as "causing political damage." As a result, Ilya was asked from the party of Grigory Yavlinsky. At the same time, the young activist managed to split the ranks of hardened liberals. Human rights activists Sergei Kovalev, Tatyana Kotlyar, Valery Borshchev stood up for the young man, but their intercession did not play a significant role.

Expelled from Yabloko, Yashin continued his political activities in Solidarity, where he was elected to the Bureau of the Federal Council. But even in this structure, the brawler Yashin is true to himself. In the spring of 2016, he and his Solidarity colleague Alexander Ryklin were the first to announce the holding of a “march in memory of Boris Nemtsov.”

From 2012 to 2016, Yashin combined work in Solidarity with membership in PARNAS. In the party, he served as deputy chairman. In the spring of 2014, like the rest of the Parnassians, he condemned the reunification of Crimea with Russia, calling the restoration of historical justice a "criminal annexation."

“Undoubtedly, Crimea is the territory of Ukraine, which is illegally annexed to Russia with the use of armed forces and in violation of international obligations,” Yashin said at the presentation of his report “Putin. War" in Kyiv. Yashin's "reports" are a compilation of facts from Wikipedia and Google queries. Once one of these works even before the official presentation on the streets of Moscow migrants from Central Asia. The distribution took place in the area of ​​Bolotnaya Square next to public toilets.

In September 2015, Yashin became a PARNAS candidate for the Legislative Assembly of the Kostroma Region. The electoral voyage ended in failure - the 2% threshold was not even overcome. However, how much noise there was around the election campaign! Yashin walked around the yards, trying to gain confidence in the pensioners, deafening the locals with powerful speakers. Once Kostroma residents even complained about the troublemaker to the police. The employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who asked Yashin to stop making noise in the yards, the deputy chairman of PARNAS resisted, refusing to comply with their demands. Ilya was detained, but released after the protocol was drawn up.

At the end of 2016, Yashin left PARNAS. From there, as well as from Yabloko, Yashin left with a scandal. More precisely, his exit was accompanied by a series of scandals, among which was a sexual one, in which he became an unwitting participant.

PARNAS Chairman Mikhail Kasyanov and member of the party's federal bureau Natalya Pelevina were connected not only by politics. This became known after the published video of one of the intimate meetings of party members. During a private conversation with Pelevin's Parnassian partners, that Yashin promised to give up his place in the election campaign for 30 thousand dollars. Passia Kasyanov told him that this fact could be confirmed by a certain "Kostya" (probably referring to PARNAS Deputy Chairman Konstantin Merzlikin). Pelevina also called Yashin a "complete scum", because of which people in the party are changing for the worse.

It turned out that Yashin in PARNAS was a lobbyist for Navalny's interests. Such conclusions follow from the data of the hacked correspondence between Pelevina and Kasyanov, published in April 2016. Pelevina in messages called Yashin a "dwarf".

After watching the video of Kasyanov's meeting with Pelevina, Yashin demanded that the PARNAS leader give up the first place on the party's electoral list. He refused. Then Yashin that will not participate in the party primaries. He also protested against the inclusion of video blogger Vyacheslav Maltsev on the federal list of PARNAS, but this demarche was ignored by Kasyanov. Following the results of the elections to the State Duma of the seventh convocation, PARNAS gained less than 1% of the vote, and in December Yashin announced his withdrawal from the party. The oppositionist explained this by a "protracted conflict with Kasyanov."

The fact that Yashin endured the grievances inflicted by party members for a long time can be explained by his fiscal interests. During the elections, PARNAS financed a certain Public Alternative fund, founded by Kasyanov and his deputy Konstantin Merzlikin. In this fund, Yashin officially received a salary. He indicated such information when registering for elections in the Kostroma region.

Yashin is now active money. He claims that he needs them for the election campaign for the post of municipal deputy. The scale, of course, is not the same as that of the self-styled presidential candidate Navalny, but still. To live To run for something is necessary. “The fight against the regime” for Yashin, as for many non-systemic oppositionists, is due not so much to an ideological need as to the desire to make money. Therefore, in the face of colleagues in the Coordinating Council of the opposition, party members from Yabloko and PARNAS, Yashin saw not political rivals, but business competitors.

Grigory Nazarenko

Member of the presidium of the Solidarity movement, former co-chairman of the all-Russian Youth Yabloko, former member of the bureau of the Moscow regional branch of the RDP Yabloko (expelled from the party in December 2008). In the past - the founder and leader of the youth movement "Defence". Columnist for Novaya Gazeta, author of the pamphlet Street Protest.

Ilya Valeryevich Yashin was born on June 29, 1983 in Moscow. In 2000 he entered the political science department of the International Independent Ecological and Political Science University (MNEPU). In the same year he became a member of the Russian Democratic Party Yabloko.

In 2001, Yashin headed the Moscow Youth Yabloko, and in 2004 he was elected a member of the bureau of the regional council of the "adult" Yabloko.

In March 2005, Yashin took the post of co-chairman of the intra-party youth association "Youth Yabloko" and in the same year initiated the creation of the youth coalition movement "Defence" (in June 2005 he became a member of the coordination council of "Defence"). Yashin himself said that the beginning of the creation of "Defence" was an action under the slogan "Down with the police autocracy!", Conducted by "Youth Yabloko" in August 2004, during which a memorial plaque with a portrait of Yuri Andropov was covered with paint. Yashin headed Oborona until January 2006, leaving it together with a number of other Yabloko members after he was not elected to the leadership of the organization (SPS representatives became the head of Oborona).

In 2005, Rossiyskaya Gazeta called Molodezhnoye Yabloko "the most active movement on the right flank" and Yashin "one of the most prominent youth leaders."

In October 2005, Novaya Gazeta published an article by Yashin "They even pass the session with giblets. The Institute of Snitching has revived in universities." The publication claimed that the pro-Kremlin movement "Young Russia" was created at the initiative of the leadership of Bauman Moscow State Technical University in order to "inform students about ties with opposition organizations and, with the help of administration staff, suppress anti-government political activity at the university." In December of the same year, activists of the "Young Russia" movement filed a class-action lawsuit for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation against the publication and the author of the article. However, in 2006, the court refused to satisfy the claim of Molodoy Rossiya, as it could not provide any evidence of the existence of its organization. In the same year, Yashin first became a special correspondent, later a columnist for Novaya Gazeta.

In 2005, Yashin defended his thesis on the topic "Technologies for organizing protests in modern Russia". In January 2006, on the basis of a diploma, he wrote the brochure "Street Protest". According to the author, it was addressed primarily to his associates, who "today such a manual is vital." A number of media reported that Yashin's brochure began to circulate immediately after publication, representatives of such youth organizations as "Yes!", AKM, "Left Front", NBP, "Nashi" expressed their desire to purchase it.At the same time, the book appeared in Moscow stores.

In December 2006, Yashin ran from the Yabloko party to the Moscow City Duma. Lost the elections. However, in his article on the elections, Yashin noted that at the polling stations in the dormitories of Moscow State University and the Oil and Gas University, he "confidently won", although "it did not play a special role, however - very few voters under the age of 30 voted."

Yashin is a participant in a number of protest actions that attracted the attention of the press. Some of them ended in conflict with law enforcement agencies. So, in November 2006, the media reported that he and the leader of the youth movement "Yes!" Maria Gaidar was fined by the Zamoskvoretsky court for holding an unsanctioned rally, during which they descended from the Bolshoi Kamenny Bridge with the help of climbing equipment and unfurled a poster "Give back the elections to the people, bastards!". Yashin said that his peers from the NBP "received real criminal terms" for the same offense. "It's obvious to me that the decision on the National Bolsheviks was made not based on the law and common sense, but on a political decision," he concluded.

In April 2007, Yashin took part in the street action "Other Russia" - the Moscow "March of Dissent". According to press reports, he, along with other opposition leaders, was detained (Yashin and Maria Gaidar, climbing the parapet of the subway entrance fence, unfurled the Russian flag and chanted "Russia without Putin" and "Down with the police state"), but later, taking advantage of the fact that that the policeman guarding them was distracted and fled.

In August 2007, it became known that Yashin proposed to expel activists who collaborated with the Other Russia from the party. According to Nezavisimaya Gazeta, this statement was a manifestation of the "fermentation" that was taking place at that time in the party, which, before the parliamentary elections, was "preoccupied with the cleanliness of its ranks" and getting rid of radical activists. However, according to news agency Sobkor®ru, Yashin claimed that the NG journalists distorted his words and "it was only about two people cooperating with Kasyanov's VAT" - Alexander Bragin, deputy chairman of the Ulyanovsk branch of the Yabloko party, and also the chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod youth "Yabloko" Vyacheslav Lukin. Bragin, in turn, expressed the idea that in this case "the initiative comes from Yavlinsky, but he prefers to act "through the youth", that is, through Yashin." "I'm sure that before the elections, the authorities simply gave them an ultimatum and the party leadership accepted it," Bragin stressed.

In September 2007, after Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the government of Mikhail Fradkov, Yashin and another leader of the Youth Yabloko, Alexander Shurshev, committed symbolic self-immolation near the walls of the Moscow Kremlin (it was reported that the victims were taken to the Sklifosovsky Institute). During the action, Yabloko unfurled a banner reading "No Successors or Burn in Hell" on Sofiyskaya Embankment. Speaking to reporters, Yashin noted that by resigning the government, Putin "started the process of unconstitutional transfer of power to his" heir "." He stated that by the action carried out "Youth Yabloko" expresses protest "against the successor operation" and demands "that new president Russia was elected in free and fair elections." During the action, an open letter from Yashin and Shurshev to the head of state was also distributed. It said, in particular: "At your age, people begin to think about the eternal. Remember, Vladimir Vladimirovich, all dictators are burning in hell. And there are a lot of them."

Meanwhile, in December 2007, representatives of four Russian parties nominated Medvedev for the presidency of Russia, and incumbent President Putin supported this decision. In March 2008, Medvedev was elected president of the country, and on May 7 of the same year, his inauguration ceremony took place. In the same month, Putin was confirmed as prime minister of the Russian Federation.

At the end of 2007, Yashin announced his intention to run for the leadership of the party, after which the media started talking about a "rebellion" in Yabloko and the emergence of an inner-party opposition. It was reported that Yashin's election program was based on demands to switch to "collegiate management" of Yabloko and move the party towards unification with other democratic opposition forces.

In May 2008, some Yabloko representatives, including Yashin and the leader of the St. Petersburg regional branch, Maxim Reznik, joined the work of the National Assembly, an "alternative parliament" convened on the initiative of the Other Russia. Party chairman Yavlinsky responded by stating that participation in the National Assembly was incompatible with membership in Yabloko and that cooperation with representatives of The Other Russia was unacceptable.

On June 3, 2008, at a conference of the St. Petersburg branch of the party, Reznik was also nominated as a candidate for the post of chairman of Yabloko. Elections for the leader of Yabloko were scheduled for June 21-22, when the party congress is due to take place. However, on June 19, Yashin withdrew his candidacy for the post of chairman of the party in favor of Reznik, saying that he "seems very important that Reznik get as many votes as possible." At the same time, it became known that the congress would consider the issue of expulsion from the Yabloko party of about 20 people, including Yashin and Reznik, for cooperation with the National Assembly of opposition forces (previously it was assumed that it would be considered by party arbitration).

On June 21, 2008, on the eve of the XV Congress of Yabloko, party spokeswoman Yevgenia Dillendorf announced that at the congress the issue of cooperation between some Yabloko members with the National Assembly, in which the Yabloko leadership officially refused to participate, was not included in the agenda , however, despite this, "the delegates will discuss this fact and make an assessment of it." On June 22, at the XV Congress of Yabloko, a new chairman of the pariah was elected. They became the head of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, Sergei Mitrokhin.

In June 2008, Yashin's term as leader of the All-Russian Youth Yabloko expired (no new elections were held).

On December 13-14, 2008, in Khimki, near Moscow, the founding congress of the new opposition movement "Solidarity" was held, where Yashin was elected to the presidium. A few days later, the politician was expelled from the Yabloko party: representatives of the Moscow branch of the party considered Yashin's entry into the leadership of Solidarity "causing political damage." It was noted that even before the founding congress of "Solidarity", the Moscow "Yabloko" made a statement "On the inadmissibility of causing political damage regional office RODP "Yabloko" in Moscow". It noted that the activities of "Solidarity" "contradicts the political platform" of "Yabloko", on the basis of which the members of the party were asked to leave the ranks of "Solidarity". It was also reported that the leader of the party Mitrokhin, commenting on the possible Yashin's exclusion from the ranks of Yabloko, in an interview with RIA Novosti, he stated that "we are not talking about Yashin's exclusion, but about him making his own choice of which organization he is a member of."

We 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, starting from where and when she was born, how she grew up, by whom she was brought up, 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 UDM "Solidarity" (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 Coordinating Council of the opposition. 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 Yabloko. Specialist in street political struggle in an authoritarian regime. He is also known for a number of political actions, for example, the action “Return the elections to the people, 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 Environmental and Political University (MNEPU), has a degree in political science, since 2007 he has been a postgraduate student at the Higher School of Economics at the Department of Applied Political Science. Long time was an activist of Yabloko, from which he was expelled for criticizing the leadership of the party about the absence of a real struggle. After Yabloko, together with Nemtsov, Kasparov and Bukovsky, he organized the Solidarity UDM, of which he is still a member. Thanks to Internet voting and e:) there, 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 lecture 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. Writes very interesting. For acquaintance, I propose to read his articles on the website of the Russian Pioneer magazine, both characterize him very accurately. Well, an article for "Frontier" Grandfather and a hooligan that says a lot about his political views. He enters on the air of radio Finam, Echo and Silver Rain, he is also invited to television for various political programs. The most common rumor is of course - "Yashin was born in 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 worked at the Research Institute. I am a proofreader, my husband is a builder. Now I am a housewife. One grandfather of Ilya was a driver, the other was a plumber. The full interview can be read on the magazine's website, keep in mind there are two pages.
Last year, the United Russia party drew caricatures of them, including Ilya Yashin, to discredit the opposition. Here is what Ilya himself answered: "Yes, it happens. Only they take me away for my civil position. And the edros themselves are usually tried for bribes: for example, Governor Dudka." Indeed, Ilya was arrested more than once, for which IGO 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 about 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 Rain, in Anatomy of Protest and Love. As already mentioned, Ksenia Sobchak is a noble ninja of oral speech, and it is difficult to talk it over, but he managed to insert a few words, at least about the fact that he used to consider Ksenia "Putin's glamorous doll" told. By the way, she is not taller than him, they are about the same height, only, Ksenia, almost always in heels.
Regarding living with Ksyusha and the lack of his own housing, Ilya has an apartment in Moscow on Yaroslavl Highway, where he lived alone, and at the time of the search at Sobchak, it was also searched, naturally without the owner, everyone knows where he was at that time. A computer and an iPad, a camera, flash cards, a lot of documents, brochures, books, all the money that was in the apartment disappeared from the apartment. Nothing is known about the history of these things, unlike Xenia's money.
Well, a few little things about Ilya Yashin. - A black cat Varka lives at his house. - Ilya does not understand contemporary art. - Has different political views with Ksenia Sobchak. - Somewhere there is his scandalous sex video with two girls. Its origin and participants are described

Yashin Ilya Valerievich is a young Russian opposition politician. As you know, politics is not an occupation for the weak, and even more so, activity in the opposition. A politician must be prudent and wise, but at the same time resolute. Ilya Yashin is 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 Yashin. The father of the future politician was born in Leningrad in 1941. For a long time he served as deputy head of the telephone service of his native city. After the collapse of the USSR, until 1999 he was the general director of OJSC Petersburg Telephone Network, and then until 2006 he held the position of head of OJSC Svyazinvest. Ilya Yashin's mother was a co-founder of the Peter-Service company.

The nationality of Ilya Yashin remains a mystery, since he himself never directly declared it. Some consider him Russian, others - a Jew.

Birth and childhood

In June 1983, Ilya Yashin swarmed. The biography of this person takes its countdown from this date.

Ilya Yashin studied at one of the Moscow schools with in-depth study of his native language and literature. In parallel, he studied at an art school. He received a complete secondary education in 2000 and at the same time entered the MNEPU, the Faculty of Political Science.

Start of political activity

Then Ilya Yashin began his political activity. The biography of this person from now on has been 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 the organization of party activities, participated in actions, 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 such actions. The same period of his life included participation in a protest against the statement of the Minister of Defense on the need to abolish student deferrals 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 the Youth Yabloko. Then he founded the youth movement "Defense", which was supposed to unite active youth protesting against the actions of power structures. But a year later he was forced to leave the "Defence" after the split of the movement.

He conducted his activities not only on the territory of Yashin. His biography speaks of participation in protest movements abroad, in particular in Belarus. All the same in 2005, while participating in an action in Minsk, the purpose of which was to demand the democratization of the Belarusian society, he was detained by law enforcement officers for several days.

In 2006, Ilya Yashin was waiting for a new promotion - he became a member of the party's federal bureau.

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 vote.

In 2007, his candidacy could become one of the key candidates in the parliamentary elections from the Yabloko party. But Ilya Yashin categorically refused to take part in the elections, arguing that the party was obliged to boycott them.

Withdrawal from 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 stated that all members of the party should follow his example. The situation was even more heated by the fact that in the same year Yashin made a statement that he was ready to join the struggle for leadership in the party, sharply criticizing the current leaders of Yabloko, but then withdrew his candidacy.

The leadership of Yabloko reacted sharply negatively to the creation of a new movement, criticizing Ilya Yashin for splitting the opposition. At the same time, Yashin himself, on the contrary, declared that Solidarity and Yabloko were natural allies in the political struggle.

As part of the Solidarity movement, as before, Ilya Valeryevich Yashin took part in many protest actions. His biography tells about his participation in the protests in Kaliningrad in 2010, the leadership of the “Putin must go” action dating back to the same time, as well as his activities during the protests on Triumfalnaya Square. He also took part in actions of a smaller scale. As a result of conducting protest activities that were not authorized by the authorities, Ilya Yashin and his associates 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 some other socio-political organizations of an opposition nature and was a member of them.

In 2010, Ilya Yashin joined the ranks of the newly formed organization "Party of People's Freedom", 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 opposition leader to this day is associated with activities in this party.

True, the association has undergone significant reorganization more than once during the period of its development. In 2012, it merged with the Republican Party of Russia, taking the name RPR-PARNAS. In 2015, the movement officially registered, according to Russian law, as a political party, reclaiming 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 a video of obscene content, the participants of which were the leader of PARNAS Kasyanov and his assistant Pelevina N.V. The latter spoke very impartially about Ilya Yashin. After that, Yashin said that after such a compromising video, Kasyanov should leave the post of head of the party, and until then Ilya Valeryevich himself was not going to take part in the party's election campaign.

In addition, Ilya Yashin was elected to the Opposition Coordinating Council in 2012, the purpose of which is to unite various political forces in the fight against power. In addition to Yashin, members of the council are such well-known opposition figures as Alexei Navalny, Garry Kasparov, Ksenia Sobchak, Lyubov Sobol, Boris Nemtsov (killed), Dmitry Bykov. In the election of the head of the Coordinating Council in the 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" B. Nemtsov. After the assassination 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 sharply received by critics, who claimed that it was based on articles from the Internet, the reliability of the information in which is in great doubt.

Personal life

Now let's find out about the other side of the life of a person like Ilya Yashin. Biography, the family of a politician are of interest to many, but marriage is not yet among his priorities, although he has already crossed the thirty-year milestone.

In 2012, the press published information about the intimate relationship between Yashin and Ksenia Sobchak. Both of them later 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 came to a standstill. And the following year, Ksenia married her son, Maxim.

Thus, Ilya Yashin currently continues to be a bachelor.

general characteristics

We learned in detail about such a well-known politician as Ilya Yashin. Biography, parents, career, nationality, party activities, personal life of this person are already known to you.

As you can see, despite his youth, Ilya Yashin on this moment is 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 party and social activities, but his personal life has so far been relegated to the background.

How the fate of Ilya Yashin as a politician will develop in the future, only time will tell. Perhaps this person will ascend the Olympus of big politics, or perhaps he will sink into obscurity, like many before him.