Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski interviewed Mikhail Iashin in Moscow 13 February 2019.

Mikhail Iashin, originally from Krasmoyarsk,has been the Director of the Regional Public Organization – Society for the Disabled of the War in Afghanistan, the Moscow Cheshire Home since 2015.

On 29 July 1985 he had stepped on an anti-personnel mine in Afghanistan and lost one of his legs. He was a resident at the Cheshire Home in 1996 as an invalid of the second group waiting to be fitted with a prosthesis. 

Since then, he became an active member of the new Cheshire Home. As a member of the State Duma, he was able at his predecessor’s death to pull some strings and solve some problems. He was encouraged to run for Director, was elected and confirmed to the position the following year. 

For more information go to https://doi.org/10.4000/pipss.5103

From: The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies.