Vladimir Kara-Murza, Yulia Navalnaya and Ilya Yashin in Berlin on Nov. 17, 2024. The three will visit Canada in an effort to convince Ottawa to offer asylum to anti-war Russians being held in U.S. detention centres.

One of Russia’s most prominent opposition figures is visiting Canada next week, hoping to push Ottawa to open its doors to Russian dissidents who are at risk of being deported from the United States and back into the arms of the Vladimir Putin’s security services.

The lobbying mission by Ilya Yashin, one of Mr. Putin’s loudest critics, is a follow-up to a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney that was published in September .

Russian dissidents ask Canada to take in colleagues facing deportation in the U.S.

That plea called on Canada to offer asylum to anti-war Russians

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