The IMF is an international organization of 185 member countries. It was established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment. (See Purposes of the IMF in the Articles of Agreement.)

Established in 1948, the UN Information Centre in Moscow is the oldest UN office in the country. It is in a way a compact UN "information agency". It is also a repository of knowledge, global best practices and standards in a wide range of areas – from environmental protection to outer space – being at the same time a sort of a local UN public relations service.

The Department of Safety and Security is responsible for providing leadership, operational support and oversight of the security management system to enable the safest and most efficient conduct of the programmes and activities of the United Nations System.

In January 2000, the Office of the United Nations Security Coordinator (UNSECOORD) established its presence in the Russian Federation. On 23 December 2004 it was renamed as UNDSS.

The Russian Federation joined the World Bank in 1992. The Bank’s strategy for FY03-05 is to support the effective implementation of the Government’s comprehensive reform program, to help mitigate risks to the sustainability of growth, and to extend the opportunities arising from the reform process more widely across the population.

For more details on the World Bank in Russia please visit the Russian Country Office web site http://www.worldbank.org.ru/

Hearing on the draft NHDR 2011 at the meeting of the Working Group of the Russian Presidential Commission on Modernization

Summer School on Human Development under the auspices of UNDP PSO, Faculty of Economics at Moscow State University and Oxford Russia Fund

Round table “Cooperation between FMS and NGOs to enhance integration prospects for refugees and asylum-seekers”

Venice School of Human Rights (EIUC - European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratization) for the students of the Human Rights Masters’ Programme

Launch of UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2011

UNIC Moscow to organize a regional launch of the Millennium Development Goals Report 2011