Yuri Shevchuk is a Russian rock star and non-conformist political figure in opposition to the regime of Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev. He was born Yuri Yulianovich Shevchuk on May 16, 1957, in Magadan province, Russia into a family of exiled school teachers. His Ukrainean father, Yulian Shevchuk, was a WWII veteran exiled to Siberia.