Career
Born in Kharkiv in the Soviet Union (today in Ukraine), Yasinov immigrated to Israel in 1993. Yasinov joined Shinui prior to the 1999 elections, and worked as a parliamentary assistant to Victor Brailovsky. In January 2004 he was the victim of an attempted stabbing outside his home in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Ramat Sharett.
In November 2005 he was injured in a brawl with students during a protest in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.
On 1 February 2006 he left Shinui to form the HaOlim faction, which then merged into the Yisrael Beiteinu faction of the National Union. Towards the end of the Knesset term, Yisrael Beiteinu broke away from the National Union.
After leaving politics he became Deputy Chairman of the Jewish National Fund.