Upon the long-standing cooperation of MUNRFE and the Administration of Volno-Nadezhdinskoye rural settlement, members of Vladivostok MUNRFE Club conducted a special learning project for the high-school students on April, 6-8. The School of Leadership led by Ms. Anastasia Yermoshina and Ms. Ekaterina Tretiakova consisted of the following MUNRFE lectures: “Mountain”, “Leadership”, “Public speaking”, “Goal setting”, “Time management” and “Teamwork”, delivered by Ms. Daria Kiseleva, Mr. Igor Glimbitskiy, Ms. Alexandra Gritsenko, Ms. Anastasia Yermoshina, Ms. Lyubov Papina, Ms. Alena Filimonova, Ms. Ekaterina Tretiakova, Ms. Alena Medvedeva, Ms. Evgeniya Belous and Ms. Diana Tzya. Moreover, there have been numerous educational trainings and games conducted in frames of the project.

Vladivostok MUNRFE Club is pleased to announce the beginning of the new Round table "Non-military aspects of international security" on the premises of Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service. The project consists of 3 lectures in Russian language by the invited expert, Mr. Alexey A. Kulinich, FEFU Asisstant Professor of International Relations. The first lecture will be started on April, 15, while the concluding round table on the agenda will be held on April, 25.

MUNRFE is happy to invite all interested students and young leaders. If you are interested in participating in this project - join this group in VK.

On March 27, 2015, MUNRFE Delegation to New York National Model UN 2015 (Ms. Victoria Yavorskaya, Ms. Elena Kiseleva, Ms. Olga V. Katina, Ms. Anna Ivanova and Mr. Vitaliy E. Savenkov) was honored to visit the World Bank Headquarters in Washington D.C. The delegates were granted a warm welcoming at the meeting with the World Bank Executive Director from Russia Mr. Andrey S. Lushin, who devoted his time to the delegation and shared about the experience upon his duties in the organization. Mr. Lushin and the delegates also discussed the interaction of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the current functioning of the World Bank worldwide and the future perspectives of the World Bank projects development in Russia. The visit was further followed by the meeting with the Senior Operations Officer in the Office of the Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Region Mr. Marcus Heinz, the Lead Public Sector Specialist Mr. John Ivor Beazley, the Country Program Coordinator for the Russia Federation Ms. Lada Strelkova, and the Program Assistant Ms. Maribel Cherres, who made presentations on the World Bank functions and mechanisms of work, as well as World Bank projects implementation in Russia. The presentations were accompanied by the ongoing discussion with the delegation, which made it more interactive and informative. The World Bank representatives expressed their pleasure hosting MUNRFE delegation and conveyed their hopes for future visits of MUNRFE to the World Bank Headquarters.

On 22-26 March 2015, the New York National Model United Nations (NMUN-NY) 2015 opened its doors to thousands of young leaders from various parts of the world, including the Russian Far East. For the fifth year, MUNRFE delegates have been demonstrating their remarkable debate and negotiations skills while participating in the largest model UN conference sponsored by the National Collegiate Conference Association and supported by the United Nations. This time, our delegation achieved new notable results and set the higher standards for prospective “NY-teams” of MUNRFE.

The current team was assigned to represent the Republic of South Sudan in five organs of the United Nations. The winners of the Annual MUNRFE Conference 2014 – Ms. Elena Kiseleva and Ms. Victoria Yavorskaya, were successfully participating in the work of GA First Committee and Economic Commission for Africa respectively. The adviser of the delegation, Secretary-General of the mentioned Conference – Ms. Olga V. Katina, debated in the Third Committee of GA, and the Director-General of the Organization – Mr. Vitaliy E. Savenkov, was allotted to the Second Committee. Moreover, MUNRFE had one more member to take part in NMUN NY 2015 but not as a delegate. Ms. Anna Ivanova has been successfully selected and peformed the duties of the Assistant Director of the Economic Commission for Africa, being the first MUNRFE member on staff with NMUN and NCCA.

Only 2 days left to apply for Grant Competition to participate in the Regional Conference 2015, which will be conducted in Blagoveshchensk on May, 2 – 5. Young leaders from Russia and abroad are invited to simulate 2 committees in English language – UN General Assembly and UN Security Council. If you are interested in your accommodation or even transportation costs to Blagoveshchensk to be covered by MUNRFE, you should submit one Policy Paper on one of the agenda items of your committee by April, 10th (Vladivostok time) to secretary-general@munrfe.ru Optionally, you may submit a Letter of Intent (500 words max) in a free-form explaining your reasons to apply for the grant. Please, note that only registered delegates (who have been already assigned a committee and a country) are eligible to apply.

On April 2, 2015, Vladivostok Club implemented a social project named "Care of Pensioners". Several members of the Club successfully visited the Sedankinskiy nursing home near Vladivostok city and conducted various entertainment activities and competitions for pensioners and sang guitar songs. Moreover, all the pensioners got sweet presents from the Club to upraise their mood.

We would like to thank Ms. Anastasia Popova, Ms. Alena Filimonova, Ms. Aleksandra Gritsenko, Ms. Yana Krasnitskaya, Mr. Lavrentiy Pak, Ms. Aleksandra Glushko and the coordinator of the project Ms. Anastasia Ignatieva for implementation of this event. MUNRFE strongly believes such activities to be vitally important in course of the long-standing process of civil society building in local communities and looks forward to continue the trend of social responsibility.