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His mother, Tatyana, told the AP in a phone interview that he was “holding up well and not regretting anything.” Last week, his parents visited him in detention. So he writes and reads a lot to make use of it.

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and ends at 10 p.m., he wrote, and consists of a walk, three meals, a couple of inspections and lots of free time. Yashin wrote answers to the AP’s questions in his small cell in Moscow’s notorious Butyrskaya prison that he shares with several other people. Russia will be free,” the politician said as he was being escorted out of the courtroom by police. On Friday, a court in Moscow extended Yashin’s detention for two more months, until Nov. He rejects the charges as politically motivated. The charges against Yashin reportedly relate to a YouTube livestream video in which he talked about Ukrainians being killed in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. The authorities charged him with spreading false information about the Russian military - a new criminal offense for which he faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. He says leaving Russia would have affected his authority and value as a politician.Ī sharp critic of the Kremlin, a vocal ally of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny and an uncompromising member of a Moscow municipal council, Yashin was arrested in June.

Yashin, 39, is one of the few prominent opposition figures who has refused to leave Russia despite the unprecedented pressure the authorities have mounted on dissent in recent years.

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