State youth policy in Russia as a tool for the development of society: an analytical review

Abstract

This article deals with the peculiarities of the implementation of  youth policy in the Russian Federation. The analysis of the main normative-legal acts of the Russian Federation in this direction is carried out. In particular,  most of the attention was paid to the "Fundamentals of State Youth Policy in the  Russian Federation until 2025" approved on 29 November 2014 by the Decree of  the Government of the Russian Federation № 2403-r. In the course of the study, the author identified a number of problems of youth  policy. Thus, it was established that from 2014 to the present time there is a  tendency to decrease the number of young citizens in the total share of the  country's population. Consequently, this creates significant problems in the  labour market. Attention is drawn to the problems of political representation of young people  in the Russian power structures. The absence of measures in the state policy to  attract young people to the political life of the country can reduce their civic  consciousness, which will negatively affect the society as a whole. As a result, the author made assumptions about how to correct the current state  of the state youth policy and to achieve improvement of employment indicators,  number and civic activity of young citizens.