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No, 108 (September, 2010)
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A University of Vladivostok took place in the creation of International seamen training center
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| A solemn ceremony of signing of Memorandum of creation of the “International seamen training center on
shipboard” has taken place in the last days of July, 2010. Among founders of the document there are Maritime
State University named after admiral G.I. Nevelskoi (Vladivostok, Russia), State
Maritime Academy named after admiral S.O. Makarov (St.-Petersburg, Russia), Dalian Maritime University (Dalian, China), Korea
Maritime University (Pusan, South Korea), John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University (Philippines) and
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the School of Maritime of Istanbul Technical University (the Republic of Turkey). Mr.Efthimios Mitropoulos,
the Secretary General of International Maritime Organization, has also substituted his signature under the Memorandum.
The International seamen training center on shipboard will be created for the purpose of improvement of vocational training for the future
maritime specialists, cooperation strengthening between maritime educational institutions of the
whole world and attraction of youth to seafaring.
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Russian children departed from Vladivostok for China by the invitation of
Hu Jintao
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A delegation of about 500 people most of all are children from 26 regions of Russian Federation – participants
of the international program “Children of the world — 2010” of the All-Russian Children Center “Ocean” in Primorye,
and the rest are accompanying adults: doctors, instructors in physical culture and swimming, professional leaders
and translators, were invited to visit China with an excursion round from 31 July to 9 August by the invitation of Hu Jintao, President of
the People's Republic of China. This invitation is a reciprocal step of the frontier neighbor on the initiative of
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to organize in Russia a recreation for
children from the Chinese provinces which have suffered during the earthquake in 2008.
The Russian children will visit Beijing, Dalian, and Tsingtao. Their excursion
program is expected to be very informative and interesting. In plans there are visits
to the Great Wall, the Imperial Palace, the Temple of Heaven (Tian Tan) in Beijin, the Olympic objects of China, quarters of national
crafts, centers of martial arts, Embassy of Russia in China, high schools, and Daljan University of Foreign Languages. The stay program
assumes also joint concerts of the Chinese and Russian schoolboys, solemn
receptions, visiting of museums, and realization of humanitarian international
projects. 500 more Russian schoolboys are expected to visit China in 2011 again.
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