FILE - Ilya Yashin, Russian opposition activist and a municipal deputy of the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow, center, listens to the court's decision in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 29, 2022. Yashin, 39, is one of the few prominent opposition figures that refused to leave Russia despite the unprecedented pressure the authorities have mounted on dissent in recent years. A 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. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)