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n politician, creator and leader of several pro-government youth groups.

In May 2000 he founded the movement Walking Together

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 , which became well known for its struggle against Vladimir Sorokin

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's books and the band Leningrad

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. In 2005 he became the leader of Nashi

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 , a new pro-Vladimir Putin

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 youth movement.

On October 8, 2007, new Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov appointed Yakemenko chairman of the newly created State Committee for Youth.