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Posted on March 10, 2010 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Youth
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Youth gather for a wrestling tournament in Transnistria region of Moldova

Wrestling tournament brings together sportsmen from across Moldova through the USAID-funded, IREX-implemented Moldova Citizen Participation Program (CPP), encouraging collaboration and healthy...

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 November 18, 2009 - in International Education, Education
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For the first time in twelve years, Georgia Southern University (GSU) has a Russian language and cultural course thanks to the volunteer efforts of Saida Akbarova, a 2008 Muskie fellow from...

Posted on November 13, 2009 - in International Education, Education
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Alexandru Mocanu outside a polling site

On November 3, 2009, Virginians elected a new governor, and Muskie fellows Alexandru Mocanu and Andriy Olenyuk were in the thick of the excitement as poll monitoring volunteers.

Posted on February 10, 2009 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Media Development
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Staff from the Moldovan newspaper Ziarul de Garda travelled 8,000 kilometers around Moldova in 2008, meeting citizens and preparing special reports on the corruption they faced in their daily...

Posted on February 1, 2009 - in International Education, Education
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From an undergraduate student who had never left Moldova, to First Secretary at his country’s Washington, DC Embassy, it’s been quite a journey for Tudor Ulianovschi. A participant...

Posted on November 15, 2008 - in Civil Society Strengthening
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The enthusiasm was palpable during a recent opening ceremony in Porumbeni, where citizens had united to overcome a series of complex logistical and bureaucratic hurdles to improve their water...

Posted on October 11, 2008 - in Education, Research Support
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In May, Dr. Elizabeth Anderson, newly appointed Assistant Professor in International Training at American University, took advantage of an IREX grant to embark on a journey aimed at...

Posted on July 30, 2008 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Youth
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After four months of training, 15 young Moldovan journalists launched the newspaper Scurt Circuit (Short Circuit), which reports on corruption and its effects on youth. As part of their training...

Posted on July 30, 2008 - in Civil Society Strengthening
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A USAID-funded community improvement project linked the communities of Dorotcaia and Grigoriopol, situated on opposite banks of the river Nistru, which separates the two cities in the...