Nashi (youth movement)
Nashi logo
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Nashi flag
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| Motto | Who, if not us |
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| Formation | 15 April 2005 |
| Type | Political youth movement |
| Purpose | Sovereign democracy, Anti-fascism, Anti-liberalism, street protests in support of Vladimir Putin, struggle against color revolutions in Russia. |
| Headquarters | Moscow |
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Membership
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150,000 |
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Official language
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Russian |
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Nashi leader
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Vasily Yakemenko |
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Main organ
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| 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 is labeled as a government organized non-governmental organization (GONGO). 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 be dissolving 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.
In 2008, the movement was divided into groups: Nashi-2.0, Steel, All Houses, Nasha Victory and other.
Western critics have compared its "deliberately cultivated resemblance to" the Soviet Komsomol or the Hitler Youth and dubbed as Putinjugend.
Nashi was officially announced on 1 March 2005 by Vasily Yakemenko the leader of the pro-Putin youth movement Walking Together. The founding conference was carried out on 15 April 2005. It is believed that Nashi was established mainly as a reaction against Ukraine's Orange Revolution in 2004, in which youth-led street protests helped give the presidency to pro-Western candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
Yakemenko claimed to have constituted Nashi as a movement to demonstrate against what he saw as the growing power of Nazism in Russia and to take on skinheads in street fights if necessary. While officially, its funding comes from pro-government business owners, it is widely reported that the group also receives direct subsidies from the Kremlin. Yakememko once said to gazeta.ru that the Kremlin's support makes it possible for them to tell businessmen: "we need money for a national project".
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