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Tuesday, 07 October 2008

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Youth movements played a critical role in the recent wave of revolutions in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine and -- to a lesser extent -- in Kyrgyzstan. New youth groups are appearing in Russia and Central Asia, much to the dismay of leaders there. "The Power of Youth" is an ongoing RFE/RL project that will look at how youth movements are born, mature, and make the transition to the postrevolutionary setting or endure under repression...

Russia: New 'Teddy Bears' Have Overtones Of Soviet-Era Youth Groups
MOSCOW -- It's a bitter, windswept day in the Russian capital and 25 children are huddled around a table set up outside the Estonian Embassy, coloring in a giant poster of a statue of a soldier. They've just spent nearly three hours on a bus driving from the city of Vladimir, and from the looks of it, most of them just want to go home. more

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