The youth movement created in the Kremlin will receive 19 billion per hour

Created on the initiative of Vladimir Putin, the state youth movement called “Movement of the First” received an annual budget of 19 billion rubles, the chairman of the board of the organization, Deputy Minister of Education and Science Hryhoriy Gurov said.

Almost 10 billion of them are planned to be sent to the regions, another 4 billion to support the operation of the central movement apparatus.

The edition of The Moscow Times notes that the amount of financing of the organization is comparable to the annual income of poor regions, such as Kalmykia or the Jewish Autonomous Region. In addition, it is three times more than the costs of the state program for “strengthening the material and technical base” of medical institutions, and five times the budget for 2023 of the project for the “development of the pharmaceutical and medical industry”, the stated goal of which is to replace disappearing imported drugs .

• In July, the State Duma adopted a bill on the creation of a state organization for children and adolescents. She should be responsible for the education of young people and form them “value orientations” and a worldview based on “traditional Russian spiritual and moral values”. The bill was submitted to the State Duma in May, on the anniversary of the pioneering organization. Vladimir Putin proposed to call the new movement “pionery”. “Movement of the first” is actually a synonym of “movement of pioneers”, if we have in mind the English original of the word “pioneer”.