NASHI: THE PUTIN YOUTH (FORMED: APRIL 15, 2005)

            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	Moscow
Membership	150,000
Official language	Russian
leader of the movement	Vasily Yakemenko
Main organ	Rosmolodej
Website	groups NASHI-2.0 STEEL ALL HOUSES NASHA VICTORY
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