Maria Sergeyeva has created an internet sensation with her good looks, pro-Putin rhetoric and passionate pro-Kremlin speeches. The young Russian beauty is the new face of the Russian pro-Putin youth movement, the Young Guard. She is part of what has become known as the Putin Generation in Russia. Read her biography, see photos and videos below. New photos have been added including a Maria Sergeyeva bikini photo.
Maria Sergeyeva
Maria Sergeyeva is emerging as the new face of Russian nationalism. Several years ago, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin began guaranteeing his future by organizing a youth division of the United Russia Party. The youth divisions are known as Nashi, the Molodaya Gvardia, the Young Guard among others. Their numbers have grown along with their pro- Kremlin and pro- Putin rhetoric, protests and demonstrations. Sergeyeva is a member of the Molodaya Gvardia.
During a recent pro-Kremlin rally (Komsomol rally), Maria gave a rousing and emotionally charged speech that has propelled her to fame. A video of the speech has gone viral on Russian YouTube and discussions of her are so intense and prolific, that the moderator of Ru_Politics (Russia’s largest blogging community) had to shut off any further comments about Sergeyeva.
The Patriotic youth of Russia are growing in numbers. Their rhetoric and protests are growing as the economic crisis worsens. Putin has sponsored these youth movements as a counter measurement to any anti-Kremlin political activism. No one can say that Putin doesn’t understand the power of using the media. Check out the Nashi videos here and here. He knows how to use sex appeal to his advantage as well. Remember Putin’s Babes?
When Maria spoke at the rally in Red Square, she declared that Putin would never let her be out of work illegally. She passionately told the crowd, “Teach Putin to make a [Lada] better than a Lexus, Sergeyeva implored. “If you don’t know any better, don’t dare to criticize the Russian auto industry!
After a stint in the Democratic Party of Russia, which she left because of the party’s support for Russia’s membership in the European Union, Sergeyeva joined Young Guard in 2006 and swiftly climbed the ranks.
“I was always proposing initiatives, writing scenarios for events and coming up with ideas, she said. “Then I began to give speeches myself at events.
The turning point in her career, she says, was a speech she gave at a 2007 protest organized by The Other Russia, a loose coalition of opposition groups led by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov and writer Eduard Limonov.
In the speech, a video of which is posted on YouTube, she claims that Kasparov “sold himself to American spies and says Limonov “has the face of someone who is psychologically abnormal.
“I personally consider them my enemies, Sergeyeva said. “They cast doubt on things that are very important to me: the integrity of Russia and its sovereignty.
Sergeyeva, who is strikingly similar in appearance and manner to actress Reese Witherspoon in the 2001 movie “Legally Blonde, has shown a penchant for sneering remarks about the appearances of those she deems political foes.
In her LiveJournal blog, Sergeyeva described liberal journalist and political commentator Yevgenia Albats as an “aging Komsomol worker and suggested that radio talk show host and journalist Yulia Latynina was becoming increasingly unattractive.
“She used to be pretty as well as smart, Sergeyeva wrote of Latynina. “What do you need to do to turn into that in a photo?
Sergeyeva suggested that excessive negativity was physically affecting Latynina.
“It’s my personal opinion, Sergeyeva told The St. Petersburg Times. “I’m not saying that Yulia Latynina is ugly. I’m saying that if a person experiences a lot of negative emotions — and if you read Latynina, she is just always negative — that negativity is reflected in the face.
Albats, editor of the liberal weekly magazine The New Times, could not be reached for comment. Latynina, who writes a column for The St. Petersburg Times, said that as a rule she does not comment on what “people paid by United Russia say about her.
Sergeyeva denied that she received a salary from United Russia. “I do everything on a voluntary basis, she said, adding that she earns income from editing, writing articles and teaching writing skills.
Marginal opposition figures and Kremlin critics aren’t the only people Sergeyeva has zeroed in on as enemies of Russia. Young Guard has also embraced an anti-immigration platform.
At one demonstration last year, she held up a checked suitcase and called on immigrants to “go home.
Maria Sergeyeva is also known as Мари Sergeyeva. Her name has been mistakenly translated as Marina Sergeyeva. Her nickname is Masha. She is 24-years-old. She is a student of Philosophy. She comes from a working class family. Her father was a metal worker and her mother was an accountant. Both are now retired.
Maria enjoys reading. She is studying Churchill’s speeches. She’s speaks to her fans and critics alike from her LiveJournal blog.
She joined the Young Guard in 2006. Her success as a member of the United Russia Young Guard is a major stepping stone to a promising political career.
Maria Sergeyeva bikini photo
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March 8th, 2009 at 12:46 am
So here the russians are talking of making a Lada better than a toyota lexus and we here in america, general motors is talking of going belly up even after billions of tarp money. What is wrong with Americans that they have let themselves fall so far? The money we gave AIG would more than build out a whole new auto industry and health care program. What is wrong with us? Its the greed and stupidity of our recent leadership that so tanked our country. Money alone will not create a sound healthful positive America when our leadership decisions have been such crap over so many years. We need values beyond the dollar, beyond evangelical, beyond body control, beyond what people ingest. This argument of calling anything different from the status quo as socialism is utter bull. I do not want to go back to the repub regieme as if that is going to solve anything. We need a better balance between our government’s role and private enterprise and both have a valuable role to play. I think as we leave the era of financial engineering we will find our roots back in our innovation in the making of things and systems.
March 8th, 2009 at 8:09 am
This is an example of what is wrong with you, Brian. There is hardly any comment you make in this site where you don’t attack Christianity in some way. Why do you say that we need values ‘beyond evangelical’? Could you please be specific and say what evangelical values do we need to throw away?
March 8th, 2009 at 9:04 am
Theres hardly any comment he ever makes anywhere that doesnt bash Bush or the country he lives in.
Dont take him to seriously Larry, hes a proven liar and just likes to make himself feel better by tossing this unsubstantiated crap into the ring.
What lead to this collosal failure is the policies and regulations put in place by decades of liberal leaders and hardly the result of an economy that really no one was crying about until 2 years ago when the worst damn congress this country has ever seen was elected into power.
Brian;
“This argument of calling anything different from the status quo as socialism is utter bull.”
Unfortunatly the argument is not that its just “something different”, the argument is that it is in fact “socialism”
“The money we gave AIG would more than build out a whole new auto industry and health care program.”
Thats not really a relevant point in that creating a health care system system is one thing as opposed to the massive amount of revenues it will take just to keep it running.
And please, cut the crap, theres not one Russian made car that I’ve ever heard anyone say one good thing about.
Come to think about it, what the hell have the Russians ever made that worked right ?
Sputnik ?
March 8th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Dear L Rivera, I do not consider evangelical values particularly Christian. I hope that helps. Its synonomyous with power seekers who seek power over others and the national agenda but not particularly Christian.
March 8th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Isn’t she the young girl Putin’s been having an *alleged* affair with ? Or do I have my rumors & gossip mixed up today ?
We all know how idiotic young girls can be when a man in power gives them so much as a glance.
March 8th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Come to think about it, what the hell have the Russians ever made that worked right ?
Sputnik ?
How about the defense of Stalingrad. The point is - Russians, particularly the youth, are trying to reinstate their country as number one in the world. It seems that a serious movement to do just that is on the rise. One way to do that is to have a charismatic ruler, crush decent and find some existing evil to use as a rallying point to further unite themselves and thus advance their cause.
America got to where it is by simply using all our freedoms to exercise our greed in any and all forms. That finally caught up with us and we are getting all our excesses shoved up our a$$es.
Look at what is going on now in America. We have a lot of bleeding yet to do before real change comes. Maybe we can get back to what made us great. I’m not sure we can.
March 8th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Brian, I will grant you the semantic point. OK, I’ll restate the question: What do you define that is evangelical, although perhaps not Christian, that needs to be thrown away? One the one more specific point you mentioned, that evangelical is “power seeker over others”, do you mean that people should not organize under a set of common ideas and use the democratic means to promote them? Or on what way do you think evangelicals should behave?
March 8th, 2009 at 11:36 am
If you refind the meaning of Christ in modern times, great. But why should that mean you suddenly have the need to run the national government? Or guilt others? I went and saw movie Milk and was astonished at the absolute tyranny of the Anita Bryant times when she actively campaigned to deny gay people civic rights in key major American City referundums to where people should be fired from their jobs with the public for simply being gay, and how would you know, but through an organized “he said, she said” witch hunt, then had the gall to say she “loves gays” as people, but was simply protecting them from themselves, so I guess eliminating people’s livelihoods protects them from themselves. She said it with a smile too. Evil masquerades in many forms, and I guess she thought she was doing “g0d’s work” here on earth. So did the nazi war machine. So did most men of that army believe they were doing g0d’s work. Then there are those Christians who belive in his message of acceptance and mercy. He was half human, so certainly he had frustrations with the human lot at times, he even ate with his betrayer’s to the machine. Heck his talks to his flock, even the angry ones are written in the bible, something well worth reading before assuming it espouses any particular right wing values, or even the kind of evangelical certainty some think it holds. It was used by the Romans to rule eventuallly. It is that concept I find evangelical thinking, the dobsons and limbaugh’s demogogic. I think Reagan was more a humble man than is ordinarily believed, but those that seek power incantate his name with America and Christianity as if to channel back the voltage of leadership. Being born again may be a personal success story but it really means nothing to me particularly good other than you found your way back to Christ after doing God knows what for years. But in the end its all about acceptance and mercy, not power and glory. The church was coopted by the romans, and the European powers for centuries as a road to power. I see evangelical spirits as remnants of that time that are more than willing to use the power of the state and the media to subjugate an even bigger flock. As colonialists we all have large religious components to our society historically and even today. But did colonialists really have a special path to heaven? I suppose some of the first virginia colonists would have some stories to tell on that one.
March 8th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
JoAnne - I know its confusing. Unfortunately, I know enough about this to know this isn’t the same girl Putin was ‘allegedly’ having an affair with. That girl was a Russian gymnast known as the ‘most flexible woman in Russia’. Seriously. We wrote about her here on Right Pundits.
This girl is one of thousands of Putin’s Babes. She’s risen above the masses through her passionate rhetoric and good looks. So she’s the Putin Babe of the day. We’ll see if she has staying power. But if she doesn’t, there’s thousands more waiting to take her place.
March 8th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Hondo
” The point is - Russians, particularly the youth, are trying to reinstate their country as number one in the world”
Fine, but using their cars as an example is just stoopid.
“Reinstate as number one ?”
If they want to reinstate or re-establish the image of their country its probably best to find a vision of something better than their lousy track record.
Being that Putin seems to want to return to the gray and dismal days of the Soviet type rule I dont see how they’ll pull it off.
“Look at what is going on now in America. We have a lot of bleeding yet to do before real change comes. Maybe we can get back to what made us great. I’m not sure we can.”
Sometimes absence makes the heart grow fonder.
You right, were gonna have to feel the hurt of being separated from the conservative values of fiscal responsability, some frugleness and smaller governmet that made us great til we realize what we been missing.
Right now were all bleeding like stuck pigs expecting transfusions without expecting to pay the bill.
We will be great again.
This episode in our history is nothing like the great depression where not only did we have a massive finacial collapse we also had the famine due to the draught creating the dust bowl in agricultural heartland, a stupid deal that was supposed to be the cure-all that was anything but along with very limited social services to depend on, disease and then war.
If we could handle that we can pretty much deal with this.
Sorry Brian, Evangelicals and the N*zis didnt/dont have that much in common bro.
I guess the next thing you’ll do is align them with radical Islam who believes they’re doing gods work also ?
Jeez.
March 8th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Brian, you accuse evangelicals (I won’t define what an evanglical is, and simply accept you calling us Christians that way) of being guilty of ‘having the need to run the national government’. Is that really an accusation? I mean, if I have a worldview that I understand benefits a nation, isn’t it my responsibility to promote it with the tools that are within my reach? For example, If I believe killing babies is morally wrong, should I stay silent because it happens that that’s an ‘evangelical’ belief? What would you think of me, if the government decided to suddenly euthanize all aids patients, and I decided to only preach against that at church? Furthermore, isn’t using your constitutional rights exactly what you do? Or only non-evangelicals can vote or raise their voices to express their opinions?
About Milk, I don’t know about that, sorry but I came to the US much later in life. I imagine it was a tragedy, although I don’t think I would trust how Hollywood retells stories, particularly on religious topics. Anyway, I am not blind to the fact that Christian faith has been abused to do much evil in the world. But that has been done going against what Christianity teaches. But I have to also say that there have been much good done in the name of Christ too. Furthermore, and contrary to Christianity, much of the evil done by other worldviews is done by following the logical extent of their principles. For example, evolution: if nature orders the survival of the fittest, then it’s only natural to get rid of the weak ones. Therefore, it’s rationally defensible under that philosophy to kill everybody with physical defects.
In sum, if we discard christian principles in the government, it makes me wonder and worry of which ones are going to be adopted in their place. What we are already seeing enacted by this government is already more than troubling.
March 8th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
L Rivera your evangelical logic has many potholes in it and that is the reason I wouldn’t want to see you people in charge of my nation. First of all nature doesn’t “order” the survival of the fittest and then naturally get rid of all the weak ones. Its more complicated than that as nature strives to conserve energy and is faced with the dilemma of entropy. The fittest simply utilize energy more efficiently and effectively and the weakest just can’t. Constant permutations and iterations of this creates, or hones a species over time save any great ecological change, and you get say the shark, a perfect animal nearly honed over 5 million years of evolution and they dont’ even get cancer to speak of. Evangelicals really don’t get what I am saying as they don’t understand the nature of energy as they can only see in metaphors as “God” etc. But they do understand power over others and that is what they strive for. I can’t say Hollywood is any more evil than Wallstreet or even the most staid of American banks and sometimes they even marry up. Christianity isn’t supposed to be evil if you follow the teachings of Christ, but he has been used by some who simply use him for power over others. If you have a very personal relationship with Christ you will see through some of the characters using him to dominate your “energy” here on earth to build their own “kingdoms”. Nobody really knows when to define a fetus a baby and I suppose a mother has a role in that so she should be consulted? I am happy to say I haven’t contributed to that problem by being responsible, so that is my vote, but I am not going to biological manhandle people either. I feel evangelicals write off the everyman Christian who sees the personal relationship with Christ and God as the goal and eschews dominating others with it. It falls into the laundry basket of many false prophets shall come to visit you in your lifetime. Choose carefully, and with the heart, not the sword or power of the state.
March 8th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
they have plenty in line with fascism, its just our system keeps it more in the verbal sphere. Fascism is my way or the your going to hedouble hockey stick way. I don’t even consider Pat Roberts one of them and enjoy his commentary and he’s got a lot of street smarts and awareness.
March 8th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
You’re right Micky, the Russians suck. If we continue down the road to Socialism we are going to suck too. This country needs a giant tune-up and, unfortunately, I think it is going to get it. We had enough time in WWII to get our act together but I don’t think we will have that kind of time to gear up if we are attacked in any major way today. I think the world will explode fairly soon and we are not prepared.
March 8th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Russia was once an european great power with a similar social class, values, and well look at Tsarist Russia. But then after the revolution they rejected spoiled europe and its royal families and got pulled eastward to the slav’s and asians. Stalin himself was georgian who now they are attacking. Putin wants to re-europeanize Russia. So the fashion models of new ambitious Russian youth, the oligarches, the new oil and gas industry all help do this, but they lack a modern manufacturing infrastructure so are kind of stuck. Envy is a powerful force and Russia wants to regain some of its lost Tsarist past. Its had great artists and scientists of european character. It has a lot of viking and north european blood mixed in with the slavic roots and it crosses so many time zones its not funny. It, like the US is in a bit of an identity crisis, though its more pronounced than ours, so far. To simply look at russia as a world war 11 and cold war machine is a mistake. Putin is more an activist than a reactionary and enjoys being a bit of a rock n roll hero and may be one of the wealthiest men in europe. What they want from us is both soverignty to handle their own internal affairs without criticism and to be able to avoid spending untold trillions of dollars to modernize their war machine. They want to participate with the west on matters of profit and prestige and to carry a low military budget. Us pushing a missle defense shield right up to their borders is seen as provocative and threatening(cuban missle crisis) and not acceptable given their internal politics no matter what we say. Everyone ignores that many soviet citizens lived in georgia during the recent war and that russia had to either show a strong reaction or simply lose more prestige. By many of our actions we continually threaten their prestige which pressures their kremlin and local politics. What is the payoff for us in doing so? The bush policies were wrong headed and simply continually annoyed them. They aren’t stupid. If obama and hill create a more constructive set of policies and lets them into the western club they will prove more accomidative. Either way we need to work together to clean up all the nuclear waste material floating all over that place and its going to take more than a decade to do so. Rather than alienate them, we should engage them on the issues we really can work on to make to take more wmd material off the global table. Apart from ego issues, the more wmd material we collect and disopose of anywhere is a good day for people everywhere. The amount of enriched uranium floating around is absolutely hair-raising insane and really needs to be delt with for the long term. Think of all the variables, costs, manning, governmental cooperation, etc for a distant antimissle system to work correctly and all the variables that a few terrorists need to assemble an wmd and it immediately becomes the weak link in our security arrangement. We need to sweep that stuff up.
March 8th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I wish that it was fashionable to be patriotic in the USA. Unfortunately, its more in fashion to criticize America and blame her for all the problems in the world. That just feeds into the propaganda our enemies use to rally people against us.
March 8th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Gee, thanks for the briefing Brian, I guess.
March 8th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Nashi is Russian Patriotic Youth Movement…
Nashi is one of several groups formed under the auspices of the United Russia Party that cater to the youth of Russia and encourage allegiance to the Kremlin and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. These Russian patriotic youth movements are growing in memb…
March 8th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Bash Bush, Mick? Bash Bush? I’d like to bash him. I’d like to bash him in the head, every time I get my paycheck.
Putin is not the only one who understands the power of the media. Fox News, Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly, on and on. You are just JEALOUS of Russia! Here we are in the US, and we voted the suckers out who sent us to hell, but in Russia, the devils are not only still in power, but enjoying a popular wellspring of approval as well. You’re just jealous! That’s all.
Well, why don’t you just move there.
March 9th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Nice girl why cant I live in Russia the prostitution business is so big there. It almost matches the size of my you know.
March 18th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Hey, is there a section just for latest news
March 18th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
we as americans need to wake up and see what is really going on around us. we are no longer the super power in which we all truly believe we use to be. we have issues, to many to list. the biggest being ourselves.we think everybody and somebody owes us something or we deserve something because its our god given right.we have not had a peoples government in the past 60 plus years nor will we ever have one again until we either crash and burn or we the people finally stand up and say enough is enough.problem is it will never happen because we all are to consumed in our own god given rights.i hope this young lady succeeds in her own cause their in russia and can only hope she inspires one of our youths to doing the same thing 10 years from now when this country we live in has gone to hell.
March 18th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Immigration is also important to save the country’s economy. They all have a lot of money saved and will probably give another boost to the US economy if they are given some kind of legal document (they should NOT be give amnesty).
Peace
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Народ в таких случаях говорит - Баба гневалась на торг, а торг того и не ведает.
July 13th, 2009 at 3:12 am
Нет, напротив.