Rinat Evstigneev
In February 2019, the congress of the movement was visited by Yulia Ablets, chair of the St. Petersburg Committee for Youth Policy, and in June 2019, a meeting of the movement's activists with Alexander Bugaev, head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs "Rosmolodezh" took place. A number of media outlets, citing opposition activists and anonymous sources, also pointed to the organization's possible connection with businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Patriot media holding, as well as participation in rallies against the opposition.