The same individuals are under accusation in the criminal cases 39068 and 118177 (names).
On March 1st 2005 the Internet site http://www.kreml.org/news/80171044 published a statement made by the leader of the Walking Together public movement Vasily Yakemenko about the creation of “the Nashi anti-fascist youth movement” whose mission is to prevent the activities of “the political youth corrupter Limonov and his wannabe nazis” This statement was spread by the Interfax news agency.
Based on the information above we ask you to verify if these facts contain criminal actions on the part of the defendants as stipulated by article 282 part 1 of the RF Criminal Code (the organization of a criminal association).
Signatures (eleven victims in total).”
In the beginning of November 2005 all the four criminal cases were united into one (and the investigation is coming to its end) in the Main investigation department of Moscow’s Prosecutor General’s office. We hope that the case will finally reach the court, although it is clear that many forces would not like a trial to happen.
But let us return to February 2005. On February 21st Kommersant writes in the article “Plain fascism”: “The Kremlin prepares a new youth project to replace the Walking together pro-Putin movement. The organization doesn’t have a name yet, but the functionaries call it Nashi between themselves. Departments of the movement have to be created in all Russia’s big cities under the direct patronage of Kremlin’s administration. The deputy head of the president’s Administration Vladislav Surkov met Saint Petersburg’s Nashi members last Thursday and promised to create a new political force based on the movement and that, by 2008, will possibly become the new party in power. The meeting was not publicized anywhere. As Kommersant managed to learn, the meeting took place in a normal rented apartment reequipped as headquarters. Over two hours Surkov talked with 35-40 young men who were entrusted with the role of the new movement’s “commissars”. Vasily Yakemenko, the ideologist of the Walking Together has also taken part in the meeting. /…/ The organizers are planning to reach a membership of 200-250 thousand people. /…/ Concerning the new project, Yakemenko first appeared in Saint Petersburg in the middle of January and in a few weeks he succeeded in ‘recruiting’ a few dozens of people. Preference is given to young people aged 18-22, mainly students. Already now the signs of a clear internal organization appear in the movement. Thus, all the members are divided by sectors: some will hold mass actions; other will do the analysis and the journalistic work. The ‘combat sector’ was also foreseen, on its base they plan to create the ‘youth forces of order’. In the beginning of February in a hotel near the city the first conference was held, where the future ‘commissars’ underwent testing, participated in geopolitics seminars and psychological training. Subsequently they were promised summer camps and from September 1st - a certain Leadership Institute. /…/ Yakemenko demonstrated Kremlin’s support to his supporters on the same meeting, on which Vladislav Surkov arrived to everybody’s surprise accompanied by only one guard. In the conversation that lasted for over two hours he mainly spoke about the general situation in the country, international and domestic politics, Russia’s history in the 1990s. Surkov made a special emphasize on the fact that the participants of the movement need ‘to go till the end’. Surkov who largely used citations from classical authors in his speech made an impression on the youth, as the participants confessed. After they have negatively spoken about all the existing parties (not only the SPS and Yabloko but also Rodina and United Russia were criticized), Surkov and Yakemenko said that by 2008 a new party will be possibly created on the base of the Nashi and it will have the task of replacing the party in power.” The text of the article in Saint Petersburg’s newspaper coincides with the Kommersant publication, so there is no need to cite it.
Let us now turn to Moskovsky Komsomoletz of February 24th 2005. The material is “The hyperboloid of Engineer Yakemenko”. The subtitle: “How we’ll be saved from an American putsch”. The first page contains a resume of the text: “Spring 2008. Before the elections of Russia’s president 50 thousand people organized and paid by US emissaries block Manezhnaya, Red Square and Vasilievsky Slope as well as the Central Electoral Commission. Their mission is to put a candidate favored by the States on the presidential seat and to turn our country into a colony at any cost.
But here a secret association enters the arena. It is not in vain that 300 million dollars were spent on its creation: 200 000 members of the super powerful organization gather in Moscow. Armed with blue plastic chairs they disperse America’s minions. The fatherland is saved. The victors are awarded with the right to cleanse the staff and occupy the liberated posts.
Nonsense?
However MK obtained documents that confirm the recently spread rumors: a grandiose plan to create a new youth movement was sent to the regions. It will be called Nashi. The mission is to save the Fatherland. To save it in the way described above. It has been several months now that a personage famous in the political circles has been traveling around Russia’s cities. His name is Vasily Yakemenko. He has already created a movement – the infamous Walking Together. After Yakemenko got the idea to create the Walking he was invited to work in the president’s administration – he became the chief of the section of public relations of the Department of internal policy. (According to another version Vasily was given the idea of a pro-Putin youth organization on Old Square and he has developed it at his best). And now Mr. Yakemenko is in a new role…
February 10th 2005. A small hall in Kursk’s college of economy and law. There are a few dozens of students from Kursk and Orlov in the hall.
Yakemenko is on the platform. ‘Turn off your cellphones. Listen carefully. Don’t ask me to repeat. My name is Vasily. I am 33 years old and my function is very simple.” Let us stop. Moskovsky Komsomoletz has banally registered Yakemenko’s speech on tape. And published the transcription with its comments. “I travel in different cities, Yakemenko goes on, – in twenty regions and I invite people from the street to these meetings. I don’t know anybody among you. And the only thing I want from these meetings is that I want to find people who think like me, who share my point of view and I propose to look for a solution in this situation.” Then Yakemenko describes the horrors of American expansion into Russia: “We learned that they have fixed the date when they will introduce an external government to 2008. And this is still an optimistic date because now we have information that this could happen earlier, in other words Russia will be turned into a colony. /…/ Many people, from the old times, from the times of the USSR, think that Russia is a great country. /…/ In reality we have nothing in Russia. We have no nuclear missiles and those we have are old and rusty… /…/
Meanwhile in Russia there are growing organizations, based on which the Americans will create an analogue of the Serbian Otpor, the Georgian Kmara or the Ukrainian Pora. This is Limonov’s NBP and the Vanguard of Red Youth. We need to give an adequate response to them. To create our own organization. Now we don’t really have the name of the organization yet; more or less all the cities agreed on the word Nashi, but there is no clear monitoring of this situation. We didn’t even found the name yet; we could change it.