News
15.07.2010
President Distinguished Club!
On July 15th, Moscow Free Speakers Club celebrated the President Distinguished Club Award, the first one in it history!
The Executive Committee of 2009-2010 thanks every member who has somehow contributed to this achievement!
Let’s look forward to the next year which already seems even more promising than 2009-2010!
More info here – http://moscowfreespeakers.ru/president2009-2010
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05.06.2010
Speech Contest Winners!
On June 3rd, Moscow Free Speakers Club held an important event - Speech Contest!
Nine experienced speakers did their best and presented their projects in front of an audience and 4 judges. As a result of this contest the three winners were announced, and here they are:
- Alexey Kudashev, CC – Best Speech of the Contest!
- Valentin Novikov – Second Best Speech!
- Sergey Kuzin, AC-B – Third Best Speech!
Congratulations to our winners and we’re happy to tell you that their speeches (and not only theirs!) will soon be available on video and in a written form! Stay tuned!
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01.06.2010
Dear Moscow Free Speakers!
The Speech Contest is coming and it’s time to announce the Contestants and other participants!
This Thursday, June 3rd, we will hear 9 projects, each 5 to 7 minutes at length. They will be delivered by these Moscow Free Speakers:
- Valentin Novikov
- Natalia Radaykina
- Syah Akhtar Mat Ali, CC
- Denis Shevchuk
- Sergey Kuzin, AC-B
- Lilia Nurutdinova
- Alexey Kravtsun
- Dmitry Chebotarevsky
- Alexey Kudashev, CC
Emcee is:
- Margarita Ryndina, AC-B
Judges are:
- Valeria Kholodkova, CC, AL-B (Chief Judge)
- Alla Oganova, CC
- Larissa Zorina, CL, AC-B
- Igor Vinogradov
Timers are:
- Olga Filimonova
- Ekaterina Sidorenko
Counter is:
- Ilya Volin
We hope to see you all on June 3rd and let make it a great meeting! The time and the place of the meeting are the same.
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20.05.2010
Dear Moscow Free Speakers!
Your executive committee is glad to announce that Elections 2010-2011 have been successfully held at our last meeting, on May 20th!
We counted all your voices and we are ready to present the exact voting results (including the voices that were given by our members online).
So please meet:
The Executive Commitee 2010-2011
1. President - Valentin Novikov (20+/0-/2±)
2. Vice President Education - Margarita Ryndina, AC-B (20+/2-/0±)
3. Vice President Membership – Valeria Kholodkova, CC, AL-B (22+/0-/0±)
4. Vice President Public Relations – Valeria Kulnevskaya (20+/0-/2±)
5. Secretary – Ekaterina Sidorenko (22+/0-/0±)
6. Treasurer #1 – Irina Chernyaga, CC (9+/7-/6±)
7. Treasurer #2 – Ilya Volin (11+/3-/8±)
8. Sergeant-At-Arms - Nick Sapozhnikov, CC (22+/0-/0±)
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10.05.2010
Dear Fellows!
May is here and it is time for Moscow Free Speakers Club Elections 2010-2011!
The big day will be May 20th and all current members are invited to give their vote for or against the proposed candidates!
If you can’t come to the meeting to vote in person than you will be given a chance to participate online!
NOTE that this service will be available during one day only – May 20th! If you want to vote online, please let us know beforehand and we will give you the link to the Special Elections Poll!
Several days prior to the date we are announcing the list of Candidates for Officers Positions 2010-2011.
If you have any suggestions or any objections or if you want to nominate yourself at any of the positions listed below, please let the current executive committee know that ASAP!
Candidates for 2010-2011
1. President - Valentin Novikov
2. Vice President Education - Margarita Ryndina, AC-B
3. Vice President Membership – Valeria Kholodkova, CC, AL-B
4. Vice President Public Relations – Valeria Kulnevskaya
5. Secretary – Ekaterina Sidorenko
6. Treasurer – Irina Chernyaga, CC, or Ilya Volin
7. Sergeant-At-Arms – Nick Sapozhnikov, CC
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06.05.2010
Happy news!
Our dear member – Valeria Kholodkova, CC, CL, – has completed her 2nd advanced leadership project at the first meeting of May and thus became Advanced Leader Bronze!
Moscow Free Speakers are proud to announce that Valeria got the first ALB award in the history of our Club! Together with Larisa Zorina, ACB, CL, and Helen Dyakonova, CL, Valeria is one of the few members who keep going toward the Leadership awards and help our club grow and succeed! Congratulations with this award and we look forward to your next leadership projects!
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15.04.2010
Great news!
Our Club has received its second membership award this year– the Talk Up Toastmasters Award!
This became possible with the help of the 5 new members that the Club added during February and March.
Congratulations!
P.S. Very soon we will get the Award Ribbon and will be able to display it on our Club’s banner!
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01.04.2010
Wonderful news!
Our dear member – Nina Tsygankova, CC, – has completed her 10th advanced project at our last meeting (Apr 1st) and received her Advanced Communicator Bronze award!
Nina’s projects are always something to look up to, and we are happy to support this title with a bronze-medal! Nina, congratulations with this step and we look forward to your next advanced speeches!
With the help of Nina we also achieved one more goal in our Distinguished Club program! So up to now we have 7 goals achieved and that makes us very close to the President Distinguished Club Title! Only one goal is left, so lets go for it!
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16.03.2010
March 8th!
Dear fellows!
Welсome the pictures that officially documents the nice surprise that Moscow Free Speakers made for our beautiful ladies on the meeting devoted to March 8th! :)
Denis Shevchuk has made about dozen of congratulatory mini-speeches, each of which was devoted to every lady at the meeting and presented her a beautiful rose.
Those of you who occidentally missed that day, enjoy our pictures here - http://moscowfreespeakers.ru/photos_march8
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07.03.2010
The Ice-Breaking Party!
Dear Toastmasters!
The Ice‐Breaking Party is almost here! )) This Thursday, March 11th, we are gathering together to have a lot of fun and talking!
Nice toasts, welcoming miniatures, quizzes and lots of smiling and laughing will be waiting for you at 7 pm in a restaurant in the city center!
The place is kept secret until Wednesday evening and will be announced only to those who have signed up! So if you haven’t yet, hurry up! Soon it will be too late
and we might not find a room for you!
UPDATE: You can catch up with us by watching the pictures that we took and shared on our website here ‐ http://moscowfreespeakers.ru/photos_icebreakingparty_2010
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01.03.2010
6th Goal Achieved!
We have recently closed the 6th goal in our Distinguished Club Program 2009‐2010.
We have added 4 more new members and this accomplishment makes us the
Select Distinguished Club already! We need to achieve two more goals so that we become the President Distinguished Club!
Let’s join our efforts to hit this mark!
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27.02.2010
It’s Money Time!
Dear fellows, we remind you that March is coming. Which means that all current members shall renew their membership within Moscow Free Speakers!
If you are going to attend our meetings and take an active part in our Club’s life during the nearest 6 months, then you shall pay the Semi-Annual Membership Dues. This time it’s 650 rubles.
Please make sure that you pay in the nearest two meetings before March is over. Leave the money to the representative of the Club’s Executive Committee.
Thank you.
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20.02.2010
Dear Fellow Toastmasters!
Watch the new videos that we recently put on ‘our videos’ page - http://moscowfreespeakers.ru/video
If you feel okay about sharing your own video with all the Toastmasters, let our executive committee know and we’ll be happy to help!
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22.01.2010
Dear Toastmasters!
The important news is that due to the reconstruction of the Oktyabrskaya kolcevaya metro station we have agreed on temporarily postponing the beginning of our meetings to
7.15 pm!
This will give you more time to be in time for the meeting!
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20.01.2010
Dear Toastmasters,
Meet our Bests and Award winners of 2009!
Best Toastmaster of the year – Natalia Sherstneva, CC
Best Speaker of the year – Serge Kuzin, AC-B
Best Table Topics Master of the year – Alla Oganova, CC
Best Personal Evaluator of the year – Elena Filya
Best General Evaluator of the year – Valeria Kholodkova, CC, CL
Best Table Topics Speaker of the year – Henry Norman, AC-S
Personal Evaluator 5 times in a row – Alla Oganova, CC
Most Productive Speaker of the year – Margarita Ryndina, AC-B
Congratulations!
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18.01.2010
Dear members and dear friends!
We want to thank you all for coming and participating at our Moscow Free Speakers 2009 Christmas and New Year Party!
We hope that you enjoyed the contests that we have planned and prepared for you! And we also want to give our special thanx to our dear hosts – Lilia and Igor – for making this party memorable!
We also hope that you’ll like these pictures (http://moscowfreespeakers.ru/photos_christmas2009) and we’ll be happy if you share your own pictures with us (which you probably took secretly :)
We are very grateful to you for you support and participation and we would also be very happy to know better what you specifically liked about this party! Or something that you think needs some improvement…
We want to do this every year to make every next party better than the previous one and we would really appreciate your feedback! If you have something to say about the party (good or bad), please send your feedback at moscowfreespeakers@gmail.com or at valeria.kholodkova@business3d.ru and we’ll certainly take your opinion into consideration.
Thank you in advance!
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23.12.2009
Fellow Toastmaster/Honored Guest!
We are cordially inviting you to join us to celebrate the coming Christmas and New Year 2010 in the premises of our regular meeting venue!
We are going to have a lot of fun: warm toasts, cold champagne and merry contests will not let you freeze!
Your executive committee is working hard to make this Party memorable, but if you feel that you could contribute something too – there is still a chance to participate!
The celebration is going take place in the Dining room of the Mining University (main entrance, 1st floor, to the left, students canteen) on December, 25th at 7 pm! The entrance fee for the event is set to be 250 roubles.
Please, indicate that you’ll come beforehand, email us and don’t forget to give the money to a representative of the executive committee
See you on Friday!
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10.12.2009
Dear fellows and friends,
We want to inform you that at our last meeting (Dec 3rd) we agreed to have 2 meetings next January. That is quite unusual since we used to have only one meeting every January for many years. The reason is that we have lots of speeches scheduled and our meetings are already booked up with projects till mid February 2010! That is why we all voted for having one additional meeting in January.
- The 1st meeting will be held in January 14th.
- The 2nd meeting will be held in January 28th.
Please, mark these dates in your calendar.
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08.12.2009
Great news!
One of our members – Valentina Salnikova – has made her 10th project at our last meeting (Dec 3rd) and received her first Competent Communicator award!
She told us an inspiring story about her passion to step-dancing and mentioned that she made 7 CC projects in the last century and 3 more – in this century! Valentina, congratulations with your big step to becoming a titled member and we look forward to your next speeches!
With the help of Valentina we also hit one more goal in our Distinguished Club program! So up to now we have 5 goals achieved in total for 2009-2010!
Congratulations!
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03.12.2009
Dear fellow Toastmasters and guests!
We are happy to remind you that Christmas is coming soon and we are throwing a traditional Christmas party!
On the very day! Right on the Christmas Eve ‐ December 24th! Come to our big Christmas party and enjoy toasts and contests, food and drinks, presents and awards! And of course lots of fun, joy and happy people! We invite all our members and guests! Please let our executive committee know that you are going to attend this wonderful party when we see you next time! Do not delay! Book the best seats! ☺
P.S. The entrance fee is 250 rubles per person
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12.11.2009
Dear fellow Toastmasters,
We hope you do like our bi-weekly newsletter and read it every time you receive it in your email box. Because if you do, you might have noticed that it became a little bigger in volume, almost every issue is now about 4 pages length (or more) and each page is worth reading! Apart from the obvious advantages that it brings, this fact also makes your executive committee work a bit more for every coming issue.
That is why we now open a vacancy for a ‘Moscow Free Speakers Cub Newsletter CO-EDITOR’! It’s an interesting role that any member can take! The only two requirements for the candidate are:
- to be attentive to the meeting participants and to the whole meeting in order to note interesting facts and details that are worth mentioning in our newsletter;
- be able to write about your observations for the upcoming issue.
What will you get if you claim for this role?
First, you will get very close to the inner processes in our Club – which is very good for your management skills development. You will also understand the ‘know-how’ of writing, editing and PR processes that we are doing now to make our Club more interesting and attractive for our members and guests.
And by taking this role you will also meet one of essential goals for the Competent Leadership manual (see Project #10 – Team Building)!
Now if you are ready to apply for this position, write to us at moscowfreespeakers@gmail.com!
Do not hesitate! Write to us right now!
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04.11.2009
Welcome our latest video on the youtube.com – “Toastmasters for me is…”! There you will see our members talking about what they specially like about our wonderful Moscow Free Speakers Club!
You will hear our anthem and also watch a number of wonderful pictures, both old and new! Many special thanks to our Film Master – Olga Filimonova!
Watch and enjoy!
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28.10.2009
Good news!
One of our members and our current Madam President – Valeria Kholodkova, CC - has received her second educational award – she is now the Competent Leader!
Thus she became the second person in Moscow Free Speakers Club (together with Helen Dyakonova, CL) who has the CL now.
Now our Club has one more goal completed in its Distinguished Club Program (the 4th one already)! We have 4 more goals to fulfill in order to get the status of the President Distinguished Club.
Congratulations!
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23.10.2009
Great news!
Our Club has received its first membership award – the Smedley Award! Isn’t it great to have it just in the year of our TI’s 85th Anniversary?!
Very soon we will get the Award Ribbon and will be able to display it on our Club’s banner!
Hurray!
P.S. This is legendary Mr. Ralph Smedley – the founder of Toastmasters!
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20.10.2009
Dear Fellow Toastmasters and guests!
As you already know we have an additional meeting on the 5th Thursday of October – 29th. And this meeting will be devoted to the 85th Anniversary of Toastmasters International!
You will meet two guests from the US, take part in the Q&A session and there will also be a small celebration of this important event! Don’t miss it!
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20.10.2009
The Executive Committee would like to inform you that we have developed and introduced the new Club’s program that is dedicated to minimize the inappropriate behaviour at our meetings – the Penalties Program.
Please take a careful look at it, because since now any member and guest is the subject to this law. More information here
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17.04.2007
We are happy and proud to announce the results of the club speech contests. The best speaker is Nina Tsygankova, CTM with her victorious speech “Oh!”. The most helpful and encouraging evaluation gave Natalia Radaykina. Our warmest congratulations to the both winners.
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31.03.2007
On April 14 -15, 2007 a Toastmasters conference will take place in Moscow, organized by two Toastmasters clubs – Moscow Free Speakers and Redefluss Moskau. We also expect a number of guests from European Toastmasters clubs. Among the planned events special emphasis should be laid on the first Speech Contest. Entrance fee for members – 200 rubles, for guests – 300 rubles.
Time: starting from 11 a.m., the conference will last for two days Location: Sportivnaya metro, Novodevichy proyezd 10, Library #27
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27.03.2007
Dear members, elections of the 2007/2008 Executive Committee will take place on May 17th, 2007. Come and vote!
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23/12/2006
Dear all!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
May the year 2007 bring you lots of health, wealth and luck!
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23.12.2006
Information for members
This year no voting for “Bests of the Year” took place at the Christmas party. All candidates for the year 2006 were sorted out by meeting statistics instead. In addition to our traditional nominations, we included two new ones: Best Personal Evaluator of the year and Best Table Topic Speaker of the year. And here are the results we get: Best Toastmaster of the year – Vladimir Kovalyk, CTM Best Speaker of the year – Olga Pryakhina, CC Best General Evaluator of the year – Dmitry Pryakhin Best Personal Evaluator of the year – Alla Oganova, CC Two Best Table Topics Masters of the year, with equal score – Helen Dyakonova and Olga Pryakhina, CC and Best Table Topics Speaker of the year - Alla Rakant Each of the winners in these nominations receives one point in the race for the Triple Crown award.
By the way, we can announce the first winner of the Triple Crown award. It is Olga Pryakhina, CC who has already received the three necessary points: accomplishment of the basic manual (Competent Communicator award) and victory in two “Bests of the year”.
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05.12.2006
Dear Fellow Clubbers!
Although winter has not properly come into sight yet, we hold it for our responsibility to remind you: Christmas is approaching nevertheless :-) This year, as usual, we devote our final meeting to eating cakes, drinking champaign, and multifarious contests. So, once you’ve started your X-mas shopping, don’t forget to spare one evening to a Toastmasters annual party :-) Your prize is waiting for you ;-) Let’s celebrate Christmas together! on Thursday, December 21 at 7 p.m. P.S. Entrance fee is only 150 rubles.
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01.09.2006
Attention!
Our entrance fee has increased up to 30 rubles per one meeting starting September 2006. This will cover our expenses on club development, like advertisement, new website hosting, and additional educational materials.
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14.08.2006
In order to make us work harder as Toastmasters, a Triple Crown Award has now been introduced. If you want to receive this award, you should earn three points within the period between July 1st, 2006 and June 30th, 2007. The member who gets three points will receive a special medallion or trophy ordered from the Toastmasters Supply Catalog.
You get one point for: 1) each one educational award registered within the given period – CC (Competent Communicator), or CL (Competent Leader) etc.; 2) winning each one title – “Best Speaker of the Year”, or “Best Evaluator of the Year” etc. – in the followup of the annual voting at Christmas party; 3) winning in the Speech Contest that is going to be organized in spring 2007. The contest terms will be announced later.
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31.07.2006
At the end of 2006 winners in the categories “Best Speaker of the Year”, “Best Evaluator of the Year”, “Best Toastmaster of the Year”, “Best Table Topics Master of the Year”, and “Best Table Topics Speaker of the Year” will be awarded with manuals either from The Advanced Communication Program, or The Successful Club Series, or The Leadership Excellence Series.
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24.07.2006
Toastmasters International has introduced some changes to its educational and award system starting July 1st, 2006. You can read this info first-hand at the TM official website.
Also, our Vice-President Educational Dmitry Pryakhin will give a speech devoted to those changes on August 3rd. Dmitry will speak on the new system in detail and will answer all questions.
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19.05.2006
On May 18th, 2006 we successfully held our annual elections. Here is a new team of the club officers:
President - Helen Dyakonova
Immediate Past-President – Olga Pryakhina
Vice-President Education – Dmitry Pryakhin
Vice-President Membership – Vladimir Kovalyk, CTM
Vice-President PR – Alla Rakant
Secretary – Irina Chernyaga
Treasurer – Natalya Sherstneva, CTM
Sergeant-at-Arms – Nick Sapozhnikov, CTM
The renewed team will start their mission on July 1, 2006. Your comments and proposals are welcome at toastmasters_ru@yahoo.com
Elections of the 2006/2007 Executive Committee will take place on May 18, 2006.
SL Liew, DTM from Bayan Baru Toastmasters Club located in Penang, Malaysia has sent us a postcard with greetings from his fellow clubbers. You will be able to see this postcard at the upcoming meeting on April 6. Recently SL Liew started off a global project of collecting postcards from Toastmasters from different countries.
We start our meetings in 2006.
The first meeting in this year will take place on February 2. The meeting on January 19 was cancelled due to unfavorable weather conditions.
Our annual Christmas party (with champagne, quizzes & contests) will take place on December 15th, 2005 at 7pm. Entrance fee: 150 rubles. NB! The best costume will be awarded a special prize.
We’ve got Advanced Toastmaster Silver. It is: Henry Norman!!! Our congratulations to him on becoming ATM-S. According to the International TM rules, Henry Norman now holds the highest position in the club.