Yashin Ilya Valerevich - a young Russian opposition politician. As you know, politics is not an activity for the weak, much less an activity in the opposition. A politician must be reasonable and wise, but at the same time decisive. Such a person is Ilya Yashin. 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 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 Petersburg Telephone Network AOOT, and then until 2006 he held the position of head of Svyazinvest OJSC. Mother Ilya Yashin was a co-founder of Peter-Service.
The nationality of Ilya Yashin remains a mystery, since he himself has never directly stated it. Some consider him Russian, others - a Jew.
Birth and childhood
In June 1983, Ilya Yashin was swarming. The biography of this person takes its count precisely from this date.
Ilya Yashin studied at a Moscow school with in-depth study of his native language and literature. In parallel, he studied at an art school. He received a full secondary education in 2000 and then entered the MNEPU, the faculty of political science.
The beginning of political activity
Then Ilya Yashin began his political activity. The biography of this person from this moment was associated with politics. In the same year, when Ilya entered the university, he became a member of the Yabloko Democratic-Liberal political party. The leader of this political force at that time was Grigory Yavlinsky.
An active and 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, prepared programs.
Protest movement
"Down with the 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 includes participation in an action protesting against the statement of the Minister of Defense on the need to cancel student deferrals from the army. As part of this protest, Yashin even shaved himself naked.
At this time, he begins to move up the party ladder. In 2003, he became a member of the board of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party. In the first half of 2005, Yashin was elected chairman of the Youth Apple. Then he established 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 withdraw from the “Defense” after the split of the movement.
Ilya Yashin conducted his activities not only in Russia. His biography speaks of his participation in protest movements abroad, in particular in Belarus. All in the same 2005, 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 was waiting for a new increase - he became a member of the party’s federal bureau.
Participation in the elections
In 2005, Ilya Yashin participated in the elections to the Moscow Duma, but took only third place, gaining a little more than 14% of the vote.
In 2007, his candidacy could become one of the key ones from the Yabloko party in the parliamentary elections. But Ilya Yashin categorically refused to take part in the elections, citing the fact that the party is obliged to boycott them.
Exit from the Yabloko party
Significant complications in the relationship between Yashin and the leadership of Yabloko started back in 2007, when he refused to participate in the elections and said that all party members 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.
In the end, this confrontation with the party leadership led to the fact that Ilya Yashin was expelled from the ranks of Yabloko at the end of 2008. The main wording is to damage the image of the party.
Creation of the Solidarity organization
But the oppositionist Ilya Yashin was not such a person to simply lay down his hands and leave politics. His biography in the following years was associated with the social movement "Solidarity", which he led with such personalities as Garry Kasparov and Boris Nemtsov. “Solidarity” has become one of the main forces of the non-systemic opposition.
The leadership of Yabloko reacted sharply to 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.
Within the framework of the Solidarity movement, as before, Ilya Valeryevich Yashin took part in many protests. His biography reports on his participation in the protests in Kaliningrad in 2010, the leadership of the “Putin must leave” campaign, which dates back to the same time, as well as on activities during the protests on Triumfalnaya Square. He also participated in smaller-scale promotions. As a result of protest activities unauthorized by the authorities, Ilya Yashin and his associates were often subjected to arrests and detentions of 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 oppositional nature and was a member of them.
In 2010, Ilya Yashin joined the ranks of the newly formed organization "Party of People’s Freedom", the leaders of which 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 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, 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 Mikhail Kasyanov.
In the fall of 2016, Ilya Yashin was supposed to take part in the elections to the State Duma on the list of the Parnassus 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 unpleasantly 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, Ilya Yashin was elected to the Opposition Coordination 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 oppositionists as Alexey Navalny, Andrei Illarionov, 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 political publications. 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 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 sharply met by critics who claimed that it was based on articles from the Internet, the reliability of the information in which was in great doubt.
Personal life
Now let's find out about the other side of the life of such a person as Ilya Yashin. Biography, the family of a politician are of interest to many, but marriage is not yet in his priorities, although he has already crossed the thirty-year line.
In 2012, the press passed information about the intimate relationship between Yashin and Ksenia Sobchak. They both later confirmed this information. There were facts that even indicated that they had lived together for some time. But by the end of 2012, the relationship between Yashin and Sobchak came to a standstill. And next year, Ksenia married the son of Emanuel Vitorgan - Maxim.
Thus, Ilya Yashin currently continues to be a bachelor.
