page_title: Nashi (youth movement)
section_title: Allegations of spying on opposition groups
hierarchical_section_title: Nashi (youth movement) / Allegations of spying on opposition groups
caption_attribution_description: English: V Congress of the youth movement NASHI Русский: V съезд молодёжного движения НАШИ
context_page_description: Nashi was a political youth movement in Russia, which declared 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. 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".
context_section_description: In early February 2009, Anna Bukovskaya, a St. Petersburg Nashi activist, publicly claimed that from January 2008 until February 2009 she had coordinated a group of 30 young people (not Nashi members) who had been tasked to infiltrate branches of the banned National Bolshevik Party, Yabloko's youth wing and United Civil Front in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh and six other cities. Bukovskaya said that the agents were to inform her, and she, in turn, passed the information to senior Nashi official Dmitry Golubyatnikov, who was allegedly in contact with "Surkov's people" in the Kremlin. The agents, who were paid 20,000 rubles ($550) per month, provided information on planned and past events together with pictures and personal information on activists and leaders, including their contact numbers. On February 3, 2009, Bukovskaya told Youth Yabloko, which she had joined six weeks prior, that she was being paid to monitor their activities and to handle people in other opposition groups.
caption: Fifth Nashi Congress in 2010.
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