Russian youth's political identification: conditions and risks

The article attempts to find the answers on the following questions. Which factors have an impact on modern youth’s attainment of a political guidance, and whether modern young people can find a political guidance at all? Are the authorities interested in this process of attainment, and which identification meanings are interesting to them? Why do modern production of identity in general and political identity in particular turn out to be closely related to social and identification risks production? Which of them can be referred to objective ones and which are the result of a short-sighted strategy regarding young people?