Young Russia is a Russian youth movement founded in April 2005. The movement is known for its protest rallies in front of foreign embassies and for various political rallies in the streets.

The organization was founded in April 2005 by a group of students and post-graduate students of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. The manifesto of the movement stipulates that their main activity will be directed against "Western expansion, terrorism and corruption".

In March 2009 leader of the movement Maksim Mishenko

Maksim Mishenko

Maksim Mishenko is a Russian politician, deputy of the State Duma, founder and leader of the youth movement Young Russia.-Biography:Born in the city of Taganrog on July 9, 1977. In 1994 went to Moscow and entered the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, which he graduated in 2000...

 declared that the movement would rather focus in other directions: among others - the fight against the religious sect of scientologists

Church of Scientology

The Church of Scientology is an organization devoted to the practice and the promotion of the Scientology belief system. The Church of Scientology International is the Church of Scientology's parent organization, and is responsible for the overall ecclesiastical management, dissemination and...

 and against illegal sales of alcohol to minors. According to Mishenko, after presidential elections the main enemy diminished its influence, and the United States of America will no longer try to use "Orange revolution

Orange Revolution

The Orange Revolution was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election which was claimed to be marred by massive corruption, voter...

technologies" to interfere in the internal affairs of our country. We need to prepare for a peaceful life and refocus our resources.