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Russian Rotary Clubs
Serving for Peace
moderator: Andrei Ibragimov DGN D-2220

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ROTARY in RUSSIA
History at a Glance
• 1983 - PDGs and Rotarians from Finland
and Sweden start informal contacts in
Russia
• 1990 - First Rotary clubs are chartered in
Moscow, St. Petersburg and Irkutsk
• 1990 - 1993 - Whole former Soviet Union
becomes part of the Finnish district 1420
(then 142)
• 1993 – Russia’s East joins District 5010
(Alaska and Yukon Territory)

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FIRST STEPS OF ROTARY IN RUSSIA

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ROTARY in RUSSIA
History at a Glance
• February 2000 - Rotary clubs of Russia’s
West join Districts 2350 and 2370
(Sweden) and District 1430 (Finland)
• June 17, 2006 - District 2220 is formed in
Russia’s West
• July 01, 2012 – District 2225 will be
chartered in Russia’s East

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ROTARY IN RUSSIA TODAY
From East to West – up to 10 000km
From North to South – over 4 000km

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• 55 Rotary Clubs
•935 Rotarians
DISTRICT 2220. LOCATION

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DISTRICT 2220. MEMBERSHIP
760
780
800
820
840
860
880
900
920
940
960
980
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

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NEW CLUBS ESTEBLISHMENT

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ERADICATING POLIO

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COOPERATION WITH OTHER INTERNATIONAL CHARITY ORGANIZATIONS

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MUSICAL INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS

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FRIENDSHIP EXCHANGES

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FELLOWSHIP

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Russia -
Ukraine
Russia –
France
Russia -
USA
Russia -
Bulgaria
Russia -
Italy
Russia -
Germany
Russia - Scandinavia
Russia - Serbia
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
9 ICCs
Russia – Belgium

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DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

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Russia - USA
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE PROJECTS
Russia - Belgium

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INTERNATIONAL SERVICE PROJECTS
Russia - Serbia

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Russia - Germany
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE PROJECTS

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D2220 – MORE THAN 20 ROTARACT CLUBS & 3 INTERACT CLUBS

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RUSSIAN ROTARY CLUBS SERVING FOR PEACE

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Peace Through Service and Friendship:
D2225 – Eastern Russia
District Governor 2012-2013
Andrey Konyushok

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RID 2225
RID 2220
RID 5010
District 2225 includes territory of
8 time zones

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Rotary Friendship Exchanges
• This program is most
popular and attracted
near 40 new
Rotarians in this year.
We have partners in
New
Zealand, USA, Canada
, Korea and Taiwan. It
is easy, simple and it
works!

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Districts Sisterhoods Relations
• Bilateral agreements.
Just arrange
understanding at
least between two
clubs and two
governors and you
ready to go! Our
brothers in Rotary are
in Taiwan
(D3480), Korea
(D3730), USA
(D5010)

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Major Fundraising Projects for
Communities
• Children’s Parks in Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk.
Each project costs from 100,000 to 170,000 USD.
Money collected with community fundraising.

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Friendship With Surrounding
Districts • Without support
and friendship
with Russian
Rotarians in
D2220 we could
not sustain.
When you don’t
have enough
PDGs – go to
neighbors for
advice!

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Visits of International Experienced
Rotarians
• When friends come – more
things become clear. Kim
Bauriedel from RC Aurica
(CA, USA) visited Russia
many times. This year he
traveled to many clubs in
2225. His experience and
advices converted in many
join projects and grants.

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Youth Exchange Program
• Russian Rotarians love
Youth Exchange
Program because
children from different
countries make their
life different. It is a
road in two directions.
Exchange program very
often become a base for
long-term friendship.

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“ PEACE THROUGH SERVICE ”
with
Inter Country Committees
Serge Gouteyron
RI Vice President 2005-06
Chair ICC Executive Council 2007-10
Honorary Chair ICC France Russia

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The moderator, Andrei Ibraghimov, kindly invited me to
make this presentation.
It gives me great pleasure to do so.
I shall talk of the Inter Country Committees (ICCs) and
their activities, with special reference to the Russo-
French Committee.

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In 1921 at the RI Convention in Edinburgh, Rotary
International adopted its 4th Avenue of Service –
„to advance international understanding,
goodwill and Peace‟.

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This became one of the targets of ICCs
some years later when the Franco-German
ICC was started in 1950

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These aims were encapsulated in the United
Nations Organisation (UN) in 1945 and the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organisation (UNESCO) in 1949.
It was to embrace the intentions of these
International Institutions capable of guaranteeing
Peace, that ICCs were created

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Mission of the ICCs (approved by the Board June 2007)
The mission of an intercountry committee is
to build a force that will encourage Rotarians
to visit each other‟s countries and homes, to
strengthen friendships and projects so
formed by encouraging clubs and districts to
connect with clubs and districts in other
countries, and to contribute to world peace.

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“ if the ICC’s didn’t
exist, they’d have
to be invented ! ”
Frank Devlyn – Lille 2001

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The Franco-Russian ICC
was constituted in Moscow
on March 11th 1995

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Its objectives are manifold :
- A Network and Twinning of Clubs

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- Meetings to Inform and Teach
- Annual General Meetings

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- Meetings to Inform and Teach
- Annual General Meetings

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Some of its initiatives include :
Projects for the Handicapped - Maternal Care –
Orphans - Training of Doctors, Teachers‟ Symposia

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Three tours in France by the Moscow Loktev
Ensemble with 30 concerts for 15.000 people.

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Publications :

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There have been many Russian Delegations to meetings
such as : District Conference 2001 and Lille Institute
2005 - Cannes 2008 Conference „’Peace is Possible‟

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What is the role of these 9 Russian ICCs
and the 350 ICCs worldwide ?
Robert Haussman in 1950
We must be recognised as
the proponents of Peace
To enable nations to work for mutual understanding and to
bring the peoples closer together.
“Rotarians must be from now on at the forefront
of the peace ideal ”

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We must have a hands-on approach to advance
the culture of Peace and with that aim we must
enliven UN‟s World Pact, as signed by Rotary in 2010

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This World Pact states that the voluntary act of
enterprises and associations is fully committed to adopt
and support within their sphere of influence -
The rights of man, the right to education, the right to
work, the right to clean water, the right to a healthy
environment
it pledges itself to protect women and children and to fight
against corruption of all kinds

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ICCs, as a tool in the service of Rotary
International, will contribute to the happiness of
mankind
in a World of Peace

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ICC RUSSIA-GERMANY
NEARLY
20 YEARS PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP
Co-Chairman of the ICC Russia-Germany
Stephan Stein

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RUSSIAN-GERMAN ICC STARTED IN 1993 AFTER THE FALL
OF THE IRON CURTAIN
Huge solidarity between the people of Russia and Germany

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THE FIRST ICC
The first ICC between Germany and France was created between the two World Wars, but was officially founded
on 23 May 1950 in Strasbourg during the district 70 conference. The ICC was the brainchild of Robert
Haussman and Roger Coutant and its purpose was to reestablish Rotary relations between the two countries,
which were strained during the Nazi era.
That day, Robert Haussman stated that “Rotarians must be from now on at the forefront of the peace ideal.”

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The ICC meets every year once in Germany
and once in Russia
ICC MEETINGS

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RESULTS OF THE 2012-2013:
2 matching grants
3 Russian students are studying in Germany,
1 Russian student studies in Russia
sponsoring of 3 RCs in Russia

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Russian Rotaractors Looking
into the Future
DRR 2220 Alina Nikifirova

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Rotaract Russian Federation:
• 2 districts
• 40 Rotaract clubs
• 3 Interact clubs
• 354 Rotaractors
• 10 projects from the clubs in month
• 6 members of RAC became Rotarians

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• “DragWay” (RAC Chita)
Important Projects:

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Important Projects:
• “Fight for the sake of Good” (RAC
Krasnoyarsk)
• “Make up dreams” (RAC Moscow-East)
• Peace forum (RACs of district 2225)

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• One district project in a single day in
several clubs
Important Projects:

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Important Projects:

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• EUCO 2012
International Events:

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International Events:
• Siberian Winter Adventure (RAC
Krasnoyarsk)
• Russian trip (RACs of district
2220), Siberian trip (RACs of district
2225)
• Russia (RACs of district 2220) – Ukraine
exchange (RACs of district 2230)

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Rotary clubs participate and support our projects

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Our education in Rotary

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Our education in Rotary
PETS 2013 in Kaliningrad

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We are big family 