On the Prospects of Organized Youth Movement in Russia (Socio-philosophical, Sociological, Political and Legal Aspects)
The article examines recent trends in state regulation of setting up youth organizations whose aims and activity would match the urgent issues of national development under the rising pressure of various threats and challenges. The authors also outline the issues that can complicate the progress of integration in youth movement. At the moment, a single mass youth organization akin to the Soviet-time Komsomol is impossible to set up. Similarly, a new federation of already existing youth organizations would be unpractical, as federative structure has long been a feature of Russia's youth movement. Given the new circumstances of Russia's internal and international situation, federal youth policy needs corrections which would prioritize patriotic education and preparedness to defend the nation and its moral, spiritual and cultural values both in the short and long run. This mandates an overall review of the practices of state support provided to children's and youth organizations - a task that requires the full power of available social resources. It must become a unified priority for various aspects of internal and external policy, and for Russia's educational system in the first place. In this light, the authors view the implementation prospects of Presidential Decree No. 536 of October 29, 2015 - a decree which mandates the creation of the “Russian Movement of School Students” - a federal public organization of children and youth.