MUNRFE Blagoveshchensk Club launches a new project #GlobalGoals and welcomes everyone to join! From year to year our planet faces more and more challenges, which lay on nature, humanity, social or technical base. As a consequence, the world has to solve all of them. That is why in September 2015, more than 190 world leaders have supported 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. If these Goals are achieved, it would mean an end to extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030. These problems are connected with everyone, that is why the Project #GlobalGoals will raise the interest in its resolving among people of different ages, professions and status, and draw their attention to the Global Problems. On March 1 - 17 each day will be dedicated to one particular Goal. The main idea of the Project is to increase the level of awareness about the Global Goals and Global problems.

Advanced Leadership School (ALS) has been successfully conducted in Vladivostok on 18 - 20 February 2017. In the course of the first day participants have immersed in details of project management by taking part in workshop conducted by MUNRFE Counselor for Project Management - Ms. Ksenia O. Shevtsova. During the informative workshop participants have gained valuable knowledge regarding the process of implementation and planning on the example of MUNRFE Inter - Club projects of 2017. On the next day MUNRFE Alumna Ms. Olga V. Bukach delivered the lecture called “Mountain”, which inspired Club members to set goals and reach them following the personal example. Besides, during the lecture participants were divided into groups to set common goals connected with the projects that they are appointed to implement. Having received such an important source of encouragement participants listened to the PR and Work with Sponsors lecture delivered by MUNRFE Executive Director - Ms. Elena A. Kiseleva, where Club members deepened in the ways of promotion of projects. Furthermore, in frames of this lecture current MUNRFE projects have been discussed, and advantages of their successful promotion were outlined.

On February 21, 2017 the world has witnessed the loss of one of the most prominent Russian diplomats, who has been serving as Russia's permanent representative to the UN for more than 10 years - H.E. Vitaly I. Churkin. H.E. Churkin passed away a day before his 65th anniversary, in New York.

He started his career in 1974 during the work of CPSU Secretary-General Leonid Brezhnev and worked in the Foreign Ministry's system for over 40 years. He was an interpreter in the negotiations of Brezhnev and US President Jimmy Carter on the SALT-2 in Geneva. Since 1982 he was the second, then the first Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in the United States. From 1987 to 1989 Vitaly Churkin was an Assistant of the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee, in 1989-1990 – the Press-secretary of the Foreign Minister of the USSR Eduard Shevardnadze. In 1991-1992 – the Head of the Information Department of the Ministry of External Relations of the USSR, after that – in Russian Foreign Ministry.

MUNRFE is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Yana Krasnitskaya for the position of the Coordinator of one of the key events in the Organization, which is Summer Program “FireStarter 2017”. This project has successfully been realized for 15 consecutive years and 2017 will not be an exception.

Throughout her career in MUNRFE, Ms. Krasnitskaya was a member of organizing committees of Third Russia-ASEAN Youth Summit 2015 and Far Eastern Model UN 2016. Moreover, she brightly proved her personal leadership skills by being an adviser of Autumn Master Classes 2016 in FEFU, where her team got a lot of awards. Furthermore, she successfully represented MUNRFE as a delegate to National Model UN 2016 in Kobe, where she had been granted an award. Currently, Ms. Krasnitskaya is representing her position as the President of Vladivostok MUNRFE Club.

MUNRFE is happy to introduce to you the Secretary-General and the Under-Secretary-General for Conference Management of MUNRFE Annual Conference 2017: Secretary-General – Ms. Anna Timokhina, Under-Secretary-General for Conference Management – Ms. Yulia Nedelkina. These ladies have already shown outstanding results in terms of work in MUNRFE. They have been actively engaged in the Management of Clubs as well as have proved their leadership and professionalism while working on various projects within the Organization. Ms. Anna Timokhina became the member of MUNRFE Vladivostok Club almost two years ago. During her career, she was the Coordinator of the Round Table «European Migrant Crisis» in FEFU and Autumn Master Classes «New Step – New Achievement» in Vladivostok.

On February 1-4, MUNRFE Executive Director, Ms. Elena Kiseleva and Ms. Victoria Yavorskaya have taken part in the World Federation of the United Nations Associations (WFUNA) International MUN (WIMUN) 2017 in New York, USA. Prior the event both ladies have successfully passed the international selection process and became the only representatives from the Russian Federation. Ms. Kiseleva performed the duties of the Secretary of the General Assembly Committee One (University division) and Ms. Yavorskaya performed the duties of the Secretary of the General Assembly Committee Three (High School division). This year WIMUN gathered more than 800 participants from around 65 countries. The agenda of the conference was devoted to the Sustainable Development Goal 16: “Peace, justice and strong institutions”.