Ilios Yannakakis * 1931 †︎ 2017 Greece, Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia 1944 - 1949 Greek civil war, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia
Hovhannes Yeranyan Հովհաննես Երանյան * 1963 Armenia, A cultural celebrity Perestroika, Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Vladyslav Yesypenko Владислав Єсипенко * 1969 Political prisoner, Ukraine, Journalist 2014 - first invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, The Annexation of Crimea (February 2014)
Arif Yunus * 1955 Human Rights Defender, Historian, Azerbaijan, Dissident Perestroika, First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Leyla Yunus * 1955 Human Rights Defender, Azerbaijan, Dissident, Historian Perestroika, First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Dissolution of the Soviet Union
