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Bastrykin accused Rosmolodezh, created with the participation of Putin, of wasting grants and spoke about the fraud of the former head
Bastrykin accused Rosmolodezh, created with the participation of Putin, of wasting grants and spoke about the fraud of the former head
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The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, in his lecture at the SPBILF sharply criticized the activities of Rosmolodezh and the “Movement of the First”. Both structures were created when… pic.twitter.com/I4KJOOc46i
The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, in his lecture at the SPBILF sharply criticized the activities of Rosmolodezh and the “Movement of the First”. Both structures were created with the direct participation of Putin. At the same time, the head of the Investigative Committee said that the former head of the agency was involved in a fraud case, which had not been previously reported.
Details . Bastrykin said that as part of the work to prevent juvenile delinquency, representatives of various government agencies, including the Ministry of Education and Rosmolodezh, cooperate with the Investigative Committee.
- ️ Quote . “Somehow the work they present to us does not inspire confidence. Everything is somehow more: “Here, we will create manuals, carry out planning.” And Rosmolodezh actually surprised me. “What are you doing, brother?” “And we,” he says, “receive grants and hold conferences with these grants.” - “What else are you doing?” - “But we don’t do anything.” Why do it when you can just put the grants in, stuff them into your pockets and wait for the next grant?” Bastrykin said.
- ️ After that, he talked about the “predecessor of the current young man” (probably the head of Rosmolodezh Grigory Gurov), who “simply got caught in fraud... And before this, this girl’s dad was also caught in an article of fraud.” We are probably talking about the former head of the structure, Ksenia Razuvaeva, who left her post in 2024. In 2025, the telegram channel “VChK-OGPU” wrote about searches at her home. Her father Denis Razuvaev was then accused of fraud on an especially large scale.
- ️ “Why such an organization was created is unclear. They receive money from the budget, but there is no point,” Bastrykin emphasized, adding that if there are representatives of Rosmolodezh or the Ministry of Education at dawn, then they should not be offended: “Don’t be offended, comrades. There’s no point in your work, I’ll say for sure, no.”
- ️ Later in the same speech, Bastrykin spoke about the Soviet movements of pioneers and Komsomol members. “Now what? “The movement of the first”? And where do they go first? Where are they? What is heard about them, what is seen?” he said and added that he considers it necessary to restore the movements of the Octoberists, pioneers and Komsomol members.
Context . Rosmolodezh traces its history back to the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Youth Affairs, created in 2007 by decree of President Vladimir Putin. Its first leader was the former leader of the Nashi movement, Vasily Yakemenko. In 2008, the state committee was transformed into the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs - Rosmolodezh.
- ️ The “Movement of the First” was created in 2022 after Putin supported the proposal of a schoolgirl from Sevastopol to create a movement that would unite children from all over Russia. The president holds the post of chairman of the movement's supervisory board and controls the work of the entire movement. The chairman of the organization since 2024 is Arthur Orlov, a participant in the war in Ukraine.