Holidays are never a reason to halt activities and keep off hard work, any member of MUNRFE Management would assure you. Coming through with elaborated annual reports and new plans for the upcoming year, the Presidential teams and the Managing Director’s (MD) team gathered in the city of Khabarovsk on 27-29 January 2014 for the XXIV Presidential Council.

In the changing world the importance of international contacts and multicultural exchange is advancing, while the ability to speak several languages gradually becomes a new standard of life. Realizing a current need to enhance global understanding, the United Nations is announcing an essay contest. The UN suggests college and university students to write an essay in one of its six official languages on the role of multilingualism in a globalized world.

A new global campaign by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) was launched today to raise awareness among consumers of the $250 billion a year illicit trafficking of counterfeit goods. The campaign – ‘Counterfeit: Don’t buy into organized crime’ – informs consumers that buying counterfeit goods could be funding organized criminal groups, puts consumer health and safety at risk and contributes to other ethical and environmental concerns.

One more time we witnessed a great international event gathering students from all over the Russian Far East, as well as other Russian cities and even other countries, to debate on acute global issues and share their solutions to the challenges humanity has been facing for ages - the XII International MUNRFE Conference! This time it was again hosted by the Vladivostok Club and conducted in the Far Eastern Federal University on 12 - 17 December 2013.

With marvelous success MUNRFE Autumn Master-classes 2013 have come to an end in Vladivostok city. For the first time ever carried out simultaneously in FEFU and VSUES on the highest level, the projects attracted more than 80 participants. Two brave Coordinators of Master-classes – Olga Kuzmina on Russkiy Island and Kira Akimova on the mainland were the ones to deal with new campus infrastructure and the rest of unpredicted challenges during past 5 weeks of Master-classes. The participants had a chance to be present during 32 hours of conceptual lectures, trainings and creative tasks which were prepared for them by more than 25 Club Members and special guests such as club experienced alumni, businessmen, foreign guest and the Human Resource manager from international British American Tobacco Company.

“Master-Classes in Model United Nations on the Russian Far East is definitely step in the right direction” – a quotation from the impressive speech of the guest of honor, FEFU President Sergey V. Ivanets, who spoke during several minutes in English in front of other guests, prospective participants and MUNRFE members on 27th of September 2013 in FEFU Campus on the Russkiy island.