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Dear friends!

I am glad to welcome you on a web site of the UN Agencies in Russia www.unrussia.ru . We are pleased to introduce you to their activities, we will try to help you find your way in a wealth of information materials about their work and facilitate your access to the information you need. It is our hope that, having visited our website once, you will come again, and will become its permanent user.

Regardless of your professional and social status - a student, a social worker, a researcher, a government official or a housewife - I am sure you will find on this website materials of particular interest for you. We on our part will do our utmost to provide you with the most recent and complete information.

This is not an easy mission, since there are many UN agencies working in the Russian Federation.. An oldest UN presence in the Russian Federation is the United Nations Information Centre in Moscow established in 1948. Most of the other UN entities were set up in the Russian Federation in the beginning of 1990s. Our goal has been, and still is, to assist Russia in adjusting to the new economic and social order. These agencies have successfully accumulated operational experience in different areas, in particular, in the implementation of the UN Millennium Development Goals - a set of specific and measurable targets aimed at reducing poverty; promoting good governance, improving public health, combating HIV/AIDS, ensuring employment and environmental sustainability as well as rendering humanitarian assistance and co-operation in overcoming of natural disasters.

Each of the UN Agencies represented in Russia has a main “corporate” web site. At the same time, most of their Moscow-based Offices have built their own internet-resources, including those in Russian, which are primarily intended for you. On their web sites you would find information on those Agencies’ projects, vacancies available, have an access to global UN web sites, news and publications. You could be referred to these global and local sites from our portal - just click the page of an agency you are interested in.

In addition, the UN system of agencies in Russia has common publication available on-line, namely “UN in Russia.”

The scope of our activity is rather wide - from protection of architecture monuments to emergency assistance programmes. One should also bear in mind that more than one agency are involved in Programme areas such as poverty, environment, education, gender, HIV/AIDS. If you are looking for materials on these issues, we suggest that you to have a look at the summary of each agency’s activities, as well as those of theme groups.

The main language of our site is Russian. We will continue posting as much new materials as possible in Russian, in order to make information about the activities of UN Agencies in Russia easily accessible for the local audiences.

Finally, I would like to emphasize that we count on your feedback - whether it is your direct message to info@unrussia.ru or establishment of contacts with UN Agencies in Russia. This is not merely a polite phrase - we really hope that this web site will help the UN system in Russia find many new friends and partners.

Wishing you all the best,

UN Resident Coordinator