Pro-Kremlin youth organization Nashi responded Friday to accusations by a Kommersant executive that Nashi was behind a cyberattack on the newspaper's website in 2008. Pro-Kremlin youth organization Nashi responded Friday to accusations by a Kommersant executive that Nashi was behind...

A senior Kommersant executive demanded Thursday that the Prosecutor General's Office open a criminal case against officials at the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi, accusing the organization of being behind an Internet attack on the paper several years ago. A senior Kommersant executive demanded Thursday that the Prosecutor General's Office open a criminal case against officials at the...

Last month's large anti-government protests were triggered in part by President Dmitry Medvedev's failure to live up to his words, the founder of the pro-Kremlin Nashi youth movement said in a rare interview published Tuesday. Last month's large anti-government protests were triggered in part by President Dmitry Medvedev's failure to live up to his words, the founder of the pro-Kremlin Nashi youth movement...

Federal Youth Agency head Vasily Yakemenko, known for his role in founding the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi, might be replaced in his position by someone younger. Federal Youth Agency head Vasily Yakemenko, known for his role in founding the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi, might be replaced in his position by someone younger, a ministry boss...

... Youth Agency's budget. This is the money of Russian taxpayers who have the right to know how they were spammed and deceived with that money." The e-mails seem to show that the Federal Youth Agency moved huge amounts of money through the leaders of Nashi to organize DDoS attacks on websites unfriendly to the Kremlin, to buy off a number of top 10 bloggers and on other activities that are dubious both morally and legally. The most innocent activity was the creation of "independent" sites...

... changes from the United States. "The fact that McFaul did not organize his first meeting with Putin but with the opposition characterizes him in a positive light," Chirikova wrote on Twitter. Chirikova said the activists were met by a group of Nashi youth activists waiting outside the embassy building with video cameras. She posted several pictures of them taking photos and filming videos through the windows of the embassy. Nashi spokesman Maria Kislitsyna said the activists came to find...

... to lock antlers with Navalny." (See here for summary of the e-mails.) The Federal Youth Agency, which Yakemenko has led since 2007, refused to comment on the e-mail exchanges. Repeated calls to a spokesperson for the pro-Kremlin youth movement Nashi went unanswered Thursday. The e-mails also contain suggestions that Yakemenko, whose official salary was 1 million rubles ($33,000) per year in 2009 — the latest available figure — was considering buying apartments worth over 30 million...

... military hardware illustrated the main message the authorities wanted to convey: The Duce was better able to prepare the country for the impending war than his own people were. Nashism — the nationalistic ideology of the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi — is an imitation of that fascist call to modernization and war. It is the ideology of any society that functions as a raw materials appendage. Russia can exist as long as it continues to export raw materials to developed countries and buy...

... movement — woods defender Yevgenia Chirikova, Solidarity's Ilya Yashin and left-wing radical leader Sergei Udaltsov — as well as parliamentary party representatives including A Just Russia's Dmitry Gudkov. There were also a sprinkling of Nashi figures and the leader of Young Russia, a similar pro-Kremlin youth movement, Maxim Mishchenko. In the MTV context, Gudkov came off the best as he has dark-haired good looks and the ability to put across a message directly. But many of the others...

... Meanwhile, across town at Poklonnaya Gora, pro-Putin forces pulled out all the stops to match the volume of the opposition march and rally, gathering a motley crowd of pensioners, Cossacks dressed in fatigues and members of the pro-Putin youth movement Nashi. Holding signs like "West, get your hands off Russia," organizers said the event was a challenge to the "Orange threat," a reference to the Ukrainian Orange Revolution that overturned the disputed 2004 election of pro-Russian...

... Across town at Poklonnaya Gora, an "anti-orange" rally was held at the same time as the opposition event and also drew a diverse crowd of demonstrators, including pensioners, Cossacks dressed in fatigues, and members of pro-Putin youth movement Nashi. A crush of demonstrators arrived at metro station Park Pobedy to attend the event, causing the station to close temporarily while they exited. A long line of buses also ferried people to the event, parking along nearby Kutuzovsky Prospekt. There...

... historical show focuses on the relationships of Alexander I and Napoleon I, Wed. to March 15. Located at 3 Delegatskaya Ul. M. Tsvetnoi Bulvar. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Tues. and the last Mon. of the month. 8-495-609-0165, www.vmdpni.ru Nashi Khudozhniki Gallery: MT Pick New Alexander Kharitonov (1931-93): retrospective of paintings and graphics from private Moscow collections, to March 25. Located at Rublyovo-Uspenskoye Shosse, 36 Posyolok Borki. M. Molodyozhnaya, then bus 121 to Posyolok...