Ten years ago on this date, April 15, 2005, Nashi, a political youth movement, was formed. I will post information about this Russian Youth Organization from Wikipedia.
Motto | Who if not us |
Formation | 15 April 2005 |
Type | Political youth movement |
Purpose | Sovereign democracy, Anti-fascism, Anti-liberal, street protests in support of Vladimir Putin, the struggle with the color revolutions in Russia. |
Headquarters | |
Membership | 150,000 |
Official language | Russian |
leader of the movement | |
Main organ | |
Website | groups |
Remarks | Color groups: Red, blue, green |
Nashi(Russian: Молодежное демократическое aнтифашистское движение «Наши», Molodezhnoye demokraticheskoye antifashistskoye dvizhenye "Nashi" Youth Democratic Anti-Fascist Movement "Ours!"') is a political youth movement in Russia, which declares itself to be a democratic, anti-fascist, anti-'oligarchic-capitalist' movement. Its creation was encouraged by senior figures in the Russian Presidential administration, and by late 2007, it had grown in size to some 120,000 members aged between 17 and 25. On April 6, 2012, the leader of Nashi announced that the movement would be dissolving in the near future, possibly to be replaced by a different organisation. He stated that the movement had been "compromised" during the recent presidential election.
In 2008, the movement was divided into groups: Nashi-2.0, Steel, All Houses, Nasha Victory and other.
Western critics have compared it to the Soviet Komsomol or the Hitler Youth and dubbed as Putinjugend.
Foundation
Beliefs and goals
Events and incidents
Annual Camp Seliger
Criticism
Payments
Allegations of spying on opposition groups
The creation of a political party