MUNRFE is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Victoria V. Yavorskaya as the Deputy Executive Director. The organization expresses its deepest gratitude to Ms. Yavorskaya for performing the duties of Vladivostok Club President during two successful terms. Throughout her career in MUNRFE, Ms. Yavorskaya successfully represented MUNRFE as a delegate at MUNIST 2014 (Istanbul, Turkey) and the NMUN 2015 (New York, USA). Furthermore, Victoria became an adviser and a head-delegate of MUNRFE delegation to Indonesian MUN 2015 (Jakarta, Indonesia) and received an award of the Best Delegate at this conference. Currently, Ms. Yavorskaya is in charge of the Far Eastern Model United Nations 2016 in Vladivostok as the Under-Secretary-General for GA Affairs and Conference Management.

MUNRFE congratulates Ms. Victoria Yavorskaya on her appointment as the Deputy Executive Director of the Organization and wishes good luck and productive work on a new position!

On February, 10 there were held the Presidential Elections in the Far Eastern Federal University. According to results, Ms. Ekaterina Tretiakova by an unanimous vote was elected as a leader, having served a previous term as the Vice-President of the Club. The newly elected President appointed Ms. Alyona Filimonova as her Vice-President.

Latter, a new composition of the Cabinet was appointed: Yana Krasnitskaya, Bogdan Naumov, Julia Kosyakova, Saiho Mongush, Anna Timokhina.

MUNRFE believes that new elected management of the Club has all the capacity to lead the Club to the brightest future. Likewise, MUNRFE would like to congratulate the leaders of the Club and wish them all the best.

On January 23-24, 2016, the XXVII Presidential Council, the highest meeting of MUNRFE, was held in the city of Khabarovsk. During 2 days MUNRFE Board and Clubs' representatives were reviewing the performance of the Organization in the year 2015, as well as approving projects for the upcoming year. Likewise, Club Presidents and active members shared their vision upon management strategies on how to improve the level of key MUNRFE projects.

During the first day the Council discussed reports submitted by the Presidents Ms. Anastasia Stasyuk (Khabarovsk) and Ms. Victoria Yavorskaya (Vladivostok), analyzing their Club projects and perspectives for the year 2016. The next day was devoted to the discussion of the report presented by MUNRFE Board: the Director-General, Mr. Vitaly E. Savenkov, the Executive Director, Ms. Ksenia O. Shevtsova, and the Deputy Executive Director, Ms. Elena A. Kiseleva. The Council carefully examined such issues as the results of implementation of the Regional and MUNRFE Annual Conferences 2015, FireStarter Summer Program 2015, Third Russia-ASEAN Youth Summit, NY National MUN, Indonesia MUN, WFUNA International MUN, and other projects, as well as overall managerial performance of the Organization.

Finally, according to the adopted decisions the following MUNRFE projects were approved for 2016: Far Eastern Model UN in May, FireStarter Summer Program in August, and MUNRFE Annual Conference in November-December. Notably, all the above mentioned projects shall be held in the city of Vladivostok.

On the 25th of January, at the National Day of Students, Mr. Vladimir Miklushevsky, the Governor of Primorsky Kray, held a meeting with the brightest student representatives from the entire region. The head of Primorye had a fruitful conversation about successful projects, new perspectives and daily work of the Governor with future regional elite. The students addressed a variety of questions to Mr. Miklushevsky, which mainly covered youth-related spheres. A representative of MUNRFE, the President of Vladivostok Club, Ms. Victoria Yavorskaya, had an opportunity to propose a discussion about a possibility to arrange the Youth Economic Forum on the threshold of the second Eastern Economic Forum. In turn, Vladimir Vladimirovich expressed his interest and promised to share this idea with the federal leadership of Russia.

Totally, more than 50 students from 9 universities attended the meeting, which was held in the museum of Arsenyev. The composition included outstanding young researchers, sportsmen, and artists, NGO representatives, winners of various regional, national and international contests and competitions. The Governor pointed out that modern youth has a wide choice of applying their talents and skills into practice, especially living in one of the most perspective and developing regions of the Russian Federation.

The Secretariat of Moscow International Model United Nations 2016 has conducted Grant Competition for citizens of the Russian Federation. The prize for winners is comprised of full reimbursement of expenses that includes round-trip ticket, accommodation and feeding during the conference.

According to the grant conditions, participants were supposed to write an essay on agenda item of the chosen committee and send it to the Secretariat. The authors of selected essays had to pass the interview conducted by the Evaluation Committee, which consisted of the MIMUN Secretary-General, President and Expert of the chosen committee. The requirements for successful implementation of interview stage were to show a high level of English, an ability to express thoughts correctly and logically, knowledge about agenda of the chosen committee and the UN structure.

As a result, MUNRFE Deputy Executive Director Ms. Elena Kiseleva was selected as a winner of the Grant Competition. MUNRFE congratulates Ms. Elena Kiseleva on this achievement and wishes success at the conference and to continue achieving future awards.

Far Eastern Federal University Student Awarding Ceremony “Ajax” is established to honor the best students and youth organizations of the year. The awards are presented for outstanding successes in sport, art, science and social activities. 96 nominees were submitted to compete for a university “Oskar” of 2015. These nominees were considered by the Evaluation Committee, which consisted of the senior FEFU officials. After careful selection process, three nominees per nomination were presented to the honorable Expert Committee for final decision. MUNRFE is happy to be represented in three nominations simultaneously: Vladivostok MUNRFE Club and its members were nominated as the FEFU “Organization of the year in social activities”, Third Russia-ASEAN Youth Summit was nominated as the FEFU "Event of the year", and MUNRFE Executive Director Ms. Ksenia Shevtsova was nominated as the FEFU "Person of the year in social activities".

Finally, according to the decision of the Expert Committee Ms. Ksenia Shevtsova was honored to be awarded as FEFU "Ajax 2015 Person of the year in social activities". MUNRFE is deeply proud of this achievement, especially taking into account outstanding performance of Ms. Shevtsova in 2015, including her leadership of the Third Russia-ASEAN Youth Summit in Vladivostok.