Nashi (youth movement)
2005–2019 pro-Putin organisation in Russia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nashi (Russian: Молодёжное демократическое aнтифашистское движение «Наши», romanized: Molodezhnoye demokraticheskoye antifashistskoye dvizhenye "Nashi", lit. 'Youth Democratic Anti-Fascist Movement "Ours!"') was a political youth movement in Russia,[3] which declared itself to be a democratic, anti-fascist, anti-"oligarchic-capitalist" movement.[4] Nashi was widely characterized as a pro-Putin outfit,[5][6] with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism describing it as "Putin's private army".[7] Western critics have detected a "deliberately cultivated resemblance to" the Soviet Komsomol[8] or to the Hitler Youth[9][10][11][12] and dubbed the group "Putinjugend" ("Putin Youth").[13][14][15][16]
Youth Democratic Anti-Fascist Movement "Nashi" Молодёжное демократическое антифашистское движение "Наши" | |
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Chairman | Vasily Yakemenko |
Founded | March 1, 2005 (2005-03-01) |
Dissolved | December 9, 2019 (2019-12-09) |
Preceded by | Walking Together |
Headquarters | 24th A Building, Pervaya Yamskogo Polya Street, Moscow, Russia |
Membership | 150,000 |
Ideology | Anti-Americanism Anti-democracy[1][2] Authoritarianism Anti-fascism Anti-revolutionary[lower-alpha 1] Illiberalism Putinism Sovereign democracy |
National affiliation | All-Russia People's Front |
Main organ | Rosmolodezh |
Colours | Red White |
Slogan | "Who if not us?" (Russian: "Кто, если не мы?") |
Party flag | |
Website | |
nashi.su | |
Senior figures in the Russian Presidential administration encouraged the formation of the group, which Moisés Naím labelled a government organized non-governmental organization (GONGO).[17] By late 2007, it had grown in size to some 120,000 members aged between 17 and 25. On April 6, 2012, the Nashi leader announced that the current form of the movement would dissolve in the near future, possibly to be replaced by a different organisation. He stated that Nashi had been "compromised" during the 2012 Russian presidential election.[18] In 2013, the organization ceased its activities and on December 2, 2019, the legal entity was liquidated.[19]