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  | Moscow-Crimea Economic and Humanitarian Ties Development Fund
Moscow-Crimea Economic and Humanitarian Ties Development Fund was established by the Government of Moscow on the 27th of November 1996 to enable better cooperation with government, public and business organizations of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Fund is Moscow Mayor Y.M. Luzhkov. The President of the Fund is Professor, Doctor of Economy O.A. Kotolupov. The key goal of the Fund is to strengthen and develop economic and humanitarian ties between Moscow and Crimea with a view to preserving the unified cultural and economic environment. Pursuing its mission for over 13 years already, the Fund has accomplished a great deal of work in this area: In year 1998 the Moscow-Crimea Fund initiated the signature of the Agreement between representative and executive authorities of Moscow and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on cooperation in trade and economy, science and technology, humanitarian and cultural sphere. In the framework of this Agreement, four protocols were signed, establishing priority programs in the sphere of economy and culture, the Moscow-Crimea Foundation being one the responsible parties. The Moscow-Crimea Fund continuously supports Crimean public associations which contribute to preserving and expanding the Russian cultural heritage. The Fund’s everyday work is aimed at developing bilateral cooperation in cultural, charitable and recreational areas, both at the regional and national level. One of its priority fields of concern is the implementation of socially significant programs to support disadvantaged residents of the city of Moscow. In total, since 1998 (as of 01.07.2009) such programs resulted in 114,849 charity recipients sent for treatment to different health resorts (of which there were more than 88 thousand children, including over 16 thousand disabled children and parents accompanying them; about 26.5 thousand challenged persons, WWII and labor veterans). For the period of 2009 (as of 01.07.2009), there were 5,782 persons served, about 4 thousands of them traveling as part of children’s groups. Since 2007 under the instruction of the Moscow Government the Fund has organized the ‘Train of Health’, its passengers being disabled children, children with health disorders from large and vulnerable families, as well as participants of the annual ‘Children to Children’ festival, held in Crimea by the Russian Cultural Center. Benefiting from ‘Health Trains’, a total of 3,348 children from Moscow with their parents visited Crimean resorts to spend their vacations and recover their health, meanwhile a series of amateur performance festivals ‘Children to Children’ were successfully organized in Crimea by the Russian Cultural Center, where children’s artistic teams from Moscow took part. Another important area of the Fund’s work is relations with Russian countrymen residing in Crimea. The Fund has accomplished over 250 humanitarian and charitable programs in Crimea designed to support our fellow nationals. With the financial backing on behalf of the Department of External Economic and International Relations of Moscow and the Moscow House of Countrymen, the Fund implements a number of charitable and humanitarian programs to support fellow countrymen residing in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, in accordance with the Summary plan of measures to implement national policy with regard to fellow nationals abroad for year 2009, developed by the Government of Moscow. The Fund cooperates with the most influential countrymen’ organizations – the Russian Community of Crimea and the Russian Community of Sevastopol. To ensure better cohesion and coordination of the work with Russian countrymen’ civic organizations in Crimea, the Alexander Nevsky Union of Russian Countrymen of Crimea was established on the Fund’s initiative. The last year witnessed the ‘Compatriot of the Year – 2008’ awarding ceremony, where chairman of the Russian Community of Sevastopol R.F. Telyatnikova was declared the prize-winner. A range of projects delivered by joint efforts of the Moscow-Crimea Fund and public organizations of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea helped to lay the groundwork for new traditions and revive the old ones. In July this year the city of Simferopol hosted a round table dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava. The event was organized by the Russian Cultural Center with the assistance of the Moscow-Crimea Fund. Among the participants of the round table were political scientists, philosophers, historians and philologists from Crimean universities, representatives of the Supreme Council and the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and officials from the Consulate-General of the Russian Federation in Simferopol. The organizers decided to publish a collected volume of the round table materials to ensure that the readership of Crimea, Ukraine and Russia could personally read the papers of Crimean scientists dedicated to the Battle of Poltava. At the moment preparations for the 65th anniversary of the Victory Day are unfolding. A number of events arranged under the umbrella of the Department of External Economic and International Relations of Moscow will be timed to these celebrations: targeted material aid, festive events in Simferopol, Sevastopol and other Crimean cities. The Russian Community of Sevastopol, the Russian Cultural Center and the Crimean office of the Moscow-Crimea Fund sponsored some interesting activities dedicated to the 225th anniversary of the foundation of the hero-city of Sevastopol. Coinciding with this date, a unique book published with the assistance of Moscow Mayor Y.M. Luzhkov was presented – ‘Sevastopol: the Glory and Pride of the Fatherland’. Earlier this year, delegates of the Moscow-Crimea Fund met with representatives of the civic movement ‘Crimean Tatars for Alliance with Russia’; preparations for the Forum of Crimean Peoples are underway. The civic movement ‘Crimean Tatars for Alliance with Russia’ and the Alexander Nevsky Union of Russian Countrymen supported the initiative to convene the Forum with a view to discussing anti-crisis measures and determining the principles of inter-ethnic concord in Crimea. In this regard, the International Regionalistics Center established under the Moscow-Crimea Fund was given the task to develop key principles of an anti-crisis program for the Autonomous Republic of Crimea with further public consultations in mass media. The Fund pays great attention to mass media relations. In 2008, Crimea hosted a press contest to showcase best reports covering the topic of Moscow-Crimea and Russia-Ukraine ties. The Fund also lends support to the newspaper ‘Russian Community of Sevastopol’. The newspaper is available not only to community members, but is distributed at the Black Sea Fleet, in Sevastopol and across the whole region of Crimea. Supporting Russian-language mass media is one of the key humanitarian projects of the Fund. On a weekly basis the Russian Cultural Center’s television studio puts on air ‘The Carillon’ – a program introducing the news of Russian-Ukraine and Moscow-Crimea cooperation to peninsula residents. In 2009, under the instruction of the Government of Moscow the regular ‘Summer School of Russian’ was held, assembling children from near 40 countries in the health campus ‘Moskovia’. This was the seventh time the summer school opened its doors for foreign teenagers. The organizers invited 349 senior school students (aged below 16) from Baltic states and some far abroad countries to take a summer course. For the five years of its existence the school was visited by over 1500 students from different parts of the world; this year there arrived children from China, Canada, Turkey, Sweden, South and North Korea, Brazil, USA and other countries. All operations of the Fund in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea are readily backed by practical assistance on the part of relevant Committees and Departments of the city of Moscow and the Consulate-General of the Russian Federation in Simferopol. Contacts: Moscow-Crimea Economic and Humanitarian Ties Development Fund General Director: Charitable Projects Section: (495)730-03-35 Press service: (495)730-03-49 Address: 107045 Moscow, Malyi Golovin Per., 5 Representative Office in Crimea: Official website: http://www.moscow-crimea.ru | Moscow External Economic RelationsMoscow International Relations |