In March 5-7, 2010 MUNRFE will conduct the III Advanced Leadership School (ALS): a Workshop on Building a Learning Organization in the city of Vladivostok. This is a three-day immersion for thirty carefully selected young leaders of youth organizations across the Russian Far East into various aspects of developing sustainable learning social institutions: systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, and team learning.

The “Round Table” dedicated to discuss “The influence of American culture on the World” was held in the Fundamental Library of the Far Eastern National University on January 23, 2010.

25 best High School seniors and juniors from schools specializing in English in Vladivostok and special guests: Sylva Etian (Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Consulate General in Vladivostok), her assistant Svetlana Demashova (former representative of IREX in Vladivostok) and Robyn Shifrin (Senior English Language Fellow in Vladivostok), 4 Korean Exchange students and 4 members of the Model United Nations of the Russian Far East (MUNRFE) were discussing different aspects of American culture and how it influences on the rest of the World for over 5 hours. The Smile Project was organized and administered by Anton Pak (Alumnus of the Global UGRAD) and Irina Lonshakova (Member of the MUNRFE).

The working language of the discussion was English. The main goal of the Smile Project was not only to form an entire image of American culture, broaden the teenagers’ horizons on the discussed topics through breaking stereotypes about Americans and their way of life, but also to look closely at the impact of American culture on the World and especially on Russia. There were 4 aspects of the discussion which were highly debated and talked over by participants; the high school seniors and juniors were giving different points of view and sharing with the information they prepared in forms of presentations, reports, essays, etc.

Vladivostok MUNRFE club members will remember January the 13th as a smiling day. It was the first day of implementation of the “Smile” project for which the club has received IREX’s support. Irina Fedorenko with the team of brave volunteers were working hard in order to bring the feast to the children from Vladivostok hospice “Parus Nadezhdi”.

MUNRFE! Our members have been always considered as the top of the smartest students community of the Russian Far East. Specially for such students Far Eastern National University conducts Third Science Conference "Russia-XXI century". This conference gives you a chance to receive a great respect from the scientific community, create your own article which will be published for free and finally, to win the gran-prix - 30000 RUR. Find bellow an opportunity provided by Far Eastern National University!

Vladislav Sklyanov, Assistant Managing Director of MUNRFE, will join the San Francisco 2010 team in April 2010 to run the Security Council simulation at the 60th MUNFW Session.

For the last several years, MUNRFE has been given an exclusive privilege to chair the Security Council at the MUNFW sessions providing we have knowledgeable and professional chairpersons. Next three months of preparation will ensure that Vladislav is equipped with necessary knowledge and experience to run the committee in San Francisco and there is no doubt that it will be held at the high level.

This year, MUNRFE will also run the ICJ simulation at the session with Olga Kostina serving the registrar of the committee.

One half a year of preparation...

A lot of work, a lot of things to do...

25 people engaged...

All this is about the organization of the VIII MUNRFE International Conference, which was implemented by the Khabarovsk MUNRFE Club. For the Khabarovsk Club it has been a great honor to be the hosting club for the VIII IC this year and it has tried to do its best to make it real.

Of course not everything, that had been planned, was implemented due to various obstacles. But in spite of all the difficulties the Club managed with all the challenges and finally organized the Conference.

The 8th MUNRFE Conference was held in Khabarovsk on November 30 – December 4, 2009.

Delegations from 4 cities, namely Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Blagoveschensk, and Chita debated in 5 committees of the United Nations. The General Assembly, Security Council, World Bank, International Court of Justice, and Peacebuilding Commission challenged the abilities of delegates to make bright speeches, ask profound questions, work during caucuses, write resolutions, and what is important, be the delegates of assigned countries. The conference served as a platform for discussion of wide-ranging topics from achieving MDGs and tackling the piracy off Somalia to financing development projects and giving advisory opinion on legal issues.

MUNRFE! This article contains the heritage and result of work of the XVI Presidents Council - The roadmap for MUNRFE on 2010. Each MUNer should take a moment to look though it and understand, where he can be usefull and what project might be usefull for him.

The regular Presidents Council of the MUNRFE took place in Khabarovsk right before the 8th International Conference. The XVI PC gathered 9 representatives from 3 clubs of MUNRFE (Vladivostok, Blagoveshensk, Khabarovsk) and MD Team with the goal to adress the main difficulties of the organizations, elaborate on the strategy of the MUNRFE's development during 2010 and make traditional PC's decisions on the approaching projects.

MD Team would like to thank Alexandra Ovsyankina, Evgeniy Pal'kin, Anna Musatova, Ulyana Kan, Anastasia Naiden, Ksenia Sukhotina, Sofia Korchagina, Anastasia Burmistrova and Sofia Vidasheva for their committment and immesurable contribution to this important event, the decisions of which are available below.

Before VIII International MUNRFE Conference comes on November 30, 2009, let’s see what its seven predecessors were about...