Mutko: Yakemenko will leave after the election

The Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy Vitaly Mutko confirmed that after the presidential election, the head of the Rosmolodezh Vasily Yakemenko will resign, RIA Novosti reports. "It must be borne in mind that in March there will be elections, there will be a new structure of the government. Naturally, of course, young people should lead the youth structure," Mutko said.

“There are enough applicants. But now I don’t want to talk. There is no point in running ahead,” the minister added. According to Mutko, the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs should be preserved. “But who will lead him, I think, there are enough worthy young people in the country, and girls, by the way, are also,” he said.

On January 30, Gazeta.ru reported about the upcoming resignation of Yakemenko. For the first time, Yakemenko was spoke about Yakemenko’s intention in the fall, but then it was noted that he would work at his post, "while this wants Surkov." After the resignation of Surkov and mass rallies, Yakemenko, by mutual agreement with the Kremlin, decided to leave the position, the sources of the publication say. One of the reasons is the Kremlin’s desire to go to a number of minor concessions to a protester, including by resigning unpopular heads of departments.

In January, Yakemenko gave an interview with Lente.ru, in which he also spoke about the resignation, although he refused to name the exact deadlines. In the same interview, he spoke very critically about the President of Dmitry Medvedev. “Yakemenko did not have a relationship with the new first deputy head of the administration Vyacheslav Volodin, who actually replaced Surkov as“ gray cardinal of Russian politics. ”This is an interview - the first step to the announcement of a voluntary resignation in March so that she did not look unexpected and passed without a scandal,” the source surrounded by Yakemenko said.

According to him, Yakemenko and the Kremlin administration decided that he would finalize before the presidential election, mainly as a consultant to the headquarters of Vladimir Putin. He now spends most of the time in the premises of the All -Russian Popular Front to ensure the mobilization of youth to mass actions in support of Putin in February and in the first days after the elections in March.

The interlocutor of Gazeta.ru, close to the presidential administration, confirmed information about the preparation of the mass shares of "ours" and affiliated with them on the streets of large cities, primarily Moscow. The format of shares is definitely not defined, but the task is clear - to contrast the street activity of the pro -Kremlin youth, which will say that the elections were honest, protests of the opposition, which awaits falsifications of voting outcomes similar to those that protesters in Bolotnaya noted in the elections to the State Duma.