BERLIN — All Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin had with him when he was released from his penal colony in a swap was his toothbrush, a tube of toothpaste, his expired passport ...

“I don’t know how to be a Russian politician in exile but I will have to learn,” said Yashin, a friend of Alexi Navalny, the Putin critic who died in prison before he could be part of the ...

Ilya Yashin, one of the Russian political prisoners freed in Thursday’s historic swap, said he was taken out of Russia against his will and wanted to stay in the country. Before Thursday’s ...

By Valerie Hopkins Reporting from Cologne, Germany Escaping the brutal Russian penal system would seem like blessed deliverance to most inmates. But not to Ilya Yashin, who stunned the world last ...

In an interview with Le Monde, the former Moscow city councilor, who was imprisoned for opposing the war in Ukraine, urges ...

BERLIN — After being released from a Russian penal colony this month in a high-profile prisoner swap, opposition figure Ilya Yashin stunned the Western public when he said he would have ...

Yashin, a stalwart of street protests in the Putin era, argued against crowning a single opposition leader, explaining that any attempt to designate one would lead to conflict within the Russian ...

Conclusion:the “Good Russian” narrative and its imperial undercurrents The public behavior of Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin, and Yulia Navalnaya in the wake of their 2024 releases paints a ...

A vocal and outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, Yashin was convicted of spreading false information about the Russian military after he made remarks on YouTube about hundreds of corpses ...