Ilya Yashin announced his candidacy for the post of mayor of Moscow
The head of the Krasnoselsky municipal district, the chairman of the political council of the Solidarity movement, Ilya Yashin, announced his participation in the Moscow mayoral elections. In his address to voters, Yashin calls the policies of the incumbent mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, "hostile and barbaric." According to him, Moscow is “mired in corruption”, the city is threatened by “the communal mafia, which is kept in the government of Moscow”, and Sobyanin is “waging war on cultural heritage”.