“The magnificent Eight”
On the 6th of March in the Russian Culture Centre a founding-meeting of a new umbrella organisation - "Council of Lithuanian Russian-speaking Youth Organisations" - was held. Eight youth public organizations and organizations working with youth from Vilnius, Klaipeda, Panevezhis, and Pasvalis, became founders of the new union. During this meeting the governing bodies were elected in a democratic way: a Chairperson (Jevgenija Avedenij “Youth Initiative Group”), Board of the Council (Valentin Charitonov – “Alternative voice”, Gintaras Zukas – “Youth Development Organization” and the leader of the “Club of the Funny and Smart”, Inesa Chekolaeva – “International Youth Union”, Ekaterina Pichiugina – “Culture Development Centre of Vilnius”, Sergej Poltorak – chairperson of the movement “What?Where?When?”, Jonas Laniauskas – director of the “Russian Culture Centre”) and the Revisers Commission (Ela Kanaite – chairperson of Russian schools teachers of Lithuania association, Kiril Nechamkin – “Youth Initiative Group”, Karina Ufert – vice-president of the “Lithuanian Students Union”).
Soon after there will be an Assembly arranged, during which all members of the “Council of Lithuanian Russian-speaking Youth Organizations” will discuss the possibilities of involving other youth organizations into the new union. There will also be presented a new Programme of Council’s development and priority projects, concerning support and development of Russian-speaking youth in Lithuania in the 2010–2011 years.
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