The Belarusian Republican Youth Union (Belarusian: Беларускі рэспубліканскі саюз моладзі, romanized: Bielaruski respublikanski sajuz moladzi (БРСМ), Russian: Белорусский республиканский союз молодежи, romanized: Belorussky respublikansky soyuz molodezhi (БРСМ, BRSM)) is a youth organization in Belarus.

Its goals are to promote patriotism and to instill moral values into the youth of Belarus, using activities such as camping, sporting events, and visiting memorials.

Some people have accused the group of using methods of coercion and empty promises in order to recruit new members and of being used as propaganda for the government of Alexander Lukashenko.

[1] President Lukashenko stated in his 2003 address to the nation the need for the BRSM to play a key role in Belarusian life: The youth — our major pillar — is at the heart of our plans and targets.

Some of these athletic events involve different groups from inside Belarus or from neighboring countries, such as Russia, Ukraine or Latvia.

[15] While the BRSM does not get involved in politics, its first secretary, Mikhail Orda, signed a letter along with other public officials denouncing the United States' Belarus Democracy Act of 2004.

The claim, made by teachers and students in Belarus, is that members who joined the BRSM either did so by coercion or were lured by promises, which included discounts at local businesses, living in good dormitories, and assistance in finding a job after college.

HRW noted in a report filed in 1999 that although [the BPSM are] ostensibly politically neutral, the centralization of appointments of rectors and the increasingly institutionalized position occupied by the BPSM in student life have created a campus environment conducive to propagation of political orthodoxy and the squelching of independent views rather than one conducive to the open-ended inquiry and expression essential to academic excellence.

The UN contends in a report released in early 2003 that the BRSM will mostly be used by President Lukashenko as a tool to recruit officials into his government.

The same report also commented on how other youth NGOs are having problems with funding and that their members face expulsion from their schools, thus having to join groups like the BRSM as a last resort.

[19] In June 2024, the BRSM and the first secretary of its Central Committee, Alexandr Lukyanov, were added to the European Union's sanctions list.

[20] In July, Switzerland,[21] Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Ukraine[22] joined these sanctions.