Which government agencies were involved in youth policy in post-Soviet Russia
The first Russian state body for youth affairs is State Committee of the RSFSR on Youth Policy — was established before the collapse of the USSR, at the end of July 1991. It was headed by the former secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League Andrei Sharonov. The State Committee existed for less than four months and was abolished in November 1991.
A year later, in September 1992, a new specialized government agency appeared: Committee on Youth Affairs under the Government of the Russian Federation headed by the same Andrey Sharonov. It lasted a little longer and was liquidated in January 1994 (with the transfer of functions to the State Committee for Youth Affairs, Physical Culture and Tourism), but in May of the same year it was recreated as an independent structure with the same leader. This time the state committee worked until the end of April 1998, but after the formation of the government of Sergei Kiriyenko it was again disbanded. On June 24, 1998, youth policy issues were transferred to the Ministry of Labor and Social Development, where the Department of Youth Affairs was created.
September 22, 1998 State Committee for Youth Affairs was re-established, and on October 12 it was headed by career military man Viktor Denikin, who had previously headed the Committee for Youth Affairs and Tourism of the Leningrad Region Administration. Under his leadership, the body changed its name once again (since May 1999, State Committee on Youth Policy), the committee was abolished for the fourth time in May 2000. After that, youth issues were first dealt with by the Department of Youth Policy of the Ministry of Education, and then by the Department of Youth Affairs of the Federal Education Agency.
For the fifth and so far last time, an independent federal youth state body appeared in Russia in 2007. By decree of President Vladimir Putin on September 14, a body subordinate to the Russian government was created State Committee for Youth Affairs, which was headed by the founder and leader of the pro-Kremlin youth movements "Walking Together" and "Nashi" Vasily Yakemenko. Finally, in May 2008, the state committee was transformed into Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh), which still exists. Until May 2012, the agency was subordinate to the Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy, then for almost six years it was subordinate to the Ministry of Education and Science, and since May 15, 2018, it has again come under direct subordination to the government.
