“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Yashin was one of several Russian political prisoners freed in a historic swap with the West last summer. He had been serving an eight-year sentence for denouncing the Kremlin's Ukraine invasion.

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 ...

Lev Yashin is regarded by many as the greatest goalkeeper of all time. Many of Russia's finest players have plied ...