Youth Time

The Youth Time is an international non-governmental organization with its main office in Prague, Czech Republic and its back office in Moscow. It was founded in 2010 by Julia Kinash to foster collaboration between young people to create social change.

Since 2010 it has co-hosted youth conferences in various countries in collaboration with, and funded by, the World Public Forum, which was founded and run by Vladimir Yakunin, former president of Russian Railways and at the time close to Vladimir Putin.

In addition to its conferences, Youth Time has organized annual 5-day summer schools, held in a different country each year since 2011. The 30 attendees between the ages of 18 and 35 are selected from a pool of applicants—primarily from non-Western countries—who have demonstrated their commitment to social causes and social change in their applications. The organization also funds the travel expenses and accommodation of selected journalists between the ages of 18 and 35 to attend and subsequently cover their summer schools and conferences.

The organization publishes a bi-monthly in English and Russian; the magazine states that it has a circulation of 28,000 with 65% of its subscribers based in Russia, 20% in Germany, and 15% in the Czech Republic.

According to Echo24, Youth Time's conferences and magazine have featured people with pro-Russian viewpoints and who criticize the economic sanctions on Russia, such as the Czech President Miloš Zeman. The magazine has also featured Alexander Karelin, the former Greco-Roman wrestler and a United Russia party member of the Russian State Duma.