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.

On August 19-21, 2013 more than 30 young leaders from North, Central, East and North-East Asia gathered on the Russkiy island, Vladivostok to participate in the Subregional Youth Forum on the implementation of Rio+20, conducted by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

Annual summer educational programme for school-children “FireStarter” this year took place in the summer camp “Ritm-10” in Vladivostok on 11-25 of August. It gathered 45 participants at the age of 13-17 years from all the Russian Far East – from Vladivostok, Ussuriysk, Fokino, Nakhodka, Spassk-Dalniy, Khabarovsk and Blagoveshchensk.

The Student Leaders Forum of Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU SLF) was conducted on venue of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) new campus on Russky island. It was a wonderful event with the aim of gathering and afterward uniting all students of APRU and giving them an opportunity to design and present projects in 4 spheres: Public diplomacy and humanitarian sciences; Volunteerism; Engineering and natural sciences; Student self-governance, which all formed four working groups with the same name.