Before the State Duma Youth Committee was set up youth policy was the responsibility of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, which also drafted all the youth policy regulations still in force today.
The RF State Committee for Youth Affairs was formed in September 2007 by RF President Decree No.1274 of 24 September 2007, and the Committee’s Terms of Reference were approved by RF Government Resolution No.706 of 27 October 2007.
The Terms of Reference define the committee as “the federal executive agency that determines state youth policy and legal regulations in this sphere, provides state services and manages state property in the sphere of state youth policy, establishes together with public organizations and movements representing the interests of youth conditions to ensure a healthy lifestyle for young people, their moral and patriotic upbringing, and fulfillment of their professional potential, and coordinates activities by regional executive agencies of the Russian Federation in this sphere”.
The committee will be guided by documents produced by the Ministry of Education and Science and is as yet unable to put forward any proposals of its own in this area.