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Posted on May 12, 2010 - in International Education, Education
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Anush Kurdova, an avid photographer immediately dug into her sizeable image archive upon hearing about IREX’s photo contest on Facebook.

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Congratulations to Aleksandar Stojkovic for his winning photo of his colleague Srdjan Ilic on an improvised anchor chair during an in-house training IREX arranged for their television station,...

Posted on February 8, 2010 - in International Education, Education
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Shabnam Almammadova will never forget the day she was watching television at home in Azerbaijan and saw a journalist ask an orphan about his greatest dream. The boy’s eyes welled with...

Posted on December 8, 2009 - in International Education, Education
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A screenshot of Elina Karakulova's blog, http://aids.kloop.kg

Over 70% of youth in Kyrgyzstan have misconceptions about HIV/AIDS, according to a recent study by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and...

“We come from many places, but we share a common future,” President Barack Obama said in an address to the United Nations General Assembly this September. This statement could not be...

Posted on September 4, 2009 - in International Education, Education, Youth
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Located only 30km from the Chinese border, the Khabarovsk State Academy of Economics and Law (KSAEL) attracts many Chinese students pursuing higher education abroad.

Posted on July 30, 2009 - in International Education, Education, Youth
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UGRAD alumna Zhanar Zhaxylykova (2007-2008) believes that kids with disabilities have the right to perform in concerts, play sports, socialize, and do all the other things their peers without...

Posted on July 14, 2009 - in International Education, Education, Youth
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Two young men running more than 600 miles in 41 days across the largest country inside Europe is not just impressive, it was enough to raise over $50,000 for premature babies in Ukraine.

Closer to the Pacific Ocean than the Volga River, the Russian Far East is home to astounding natural beauty, but local unemployment and the region’s proximity to international borders put...

Posted on May 30, 2009 - in International Education, Education
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Over 400,000 young people participate in Model United Nations simulations each year, but students in Turkmenistan weren’t among them—until Global Undergraduate Exchange (Global UGRAD...