Interview with Mikhail Iashin, - Director of the Cheshire Home for War Invalids (2015-Present) -, Conducted in Moscow, Russia, 13 February 2019 (RU)

Abstract

Mikhail Iashin, originally from Krasnoyarsk, is the Director of the Regional Public Organization "Society for the Disabled of the War in Afghanistan", the Moscow Cheshire Home since 2015. He was himself a resident of the Cheshire Home in 1996 - as an invalid of the second group – waiting to be fitted with a prosthesis. On the 29th of July 1985, he had stepped on an anti-personnel mine in Afghanistan and lost a leg. Since then, he became an active member of the 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 this position the following year.