Vasily Yakemenko

An insider at the NTV channel has said that its Director General Vladimir Kulistikov routinely bans negative stories about Yakemenko and Rosmolodyozh.

[12] In October 2011 socialite, journalist and TV personality, Ksenia Sobchak, spotted Yakemenko at Mario's – one of Moscow's top restaurants.

[14] On 13 June 2012, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree dismissing Yakemenko from the post of head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.

[1] On 25 December 2012, in an interview, Yakemenko stated that the creation of his political party was stopped due to a lack of interest on the part of the Presidential Administration.

However, a number of new commissars under the leadership of the head of the central apparatus, Artur Omarov, and the former press secretary of the movement, Kristina Potupchik, refused to participate in the congress.

In the interview, Yekemenko labeled himself a "crook" who had "made a hell of a lot of money" from Nashi, stating that the youth movement was dissolved because it failed to do "what it was paid for", for instance, suppressing the 2011 Russian Protests.

Yakemenko also stated that he did not believe in the concept of Russia "as a nation", rather conceiving of the country as consisting of millions of "individual, scared people".

He also expressed pity for Vladimir Putin and participants in the Special military operation, and labeled the government in which he had worked "degenerate" and corrupt.