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International Education Week 2005

Each year, IREX participates in International Education Week, a joint initiative of the US Department of State and the US Department of Education intended to celebrate the benefits of...

Posted on October 11, 2005 - in Higher Education Development, Education
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John Goldrick and Aleksey Nechaev

University administrators and Ministers of Education from across Eurasia were able to gather in Moscow to discuss “Case Studies and Models for Higher Education Reform” at a...

Posted on September 26, 2005 - in International Education, Education, Youth
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UGRAD

IREX recently launched the 13th year of the Eurasian Undergraduate Exchange Program (UGRAD) welcoming nearly 170 undergraduate students from across Eurasia for academic study in the United...

Posted on September 19, 2005 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Youth
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Catherine Yusupov with a class of students

The sixth and final year of the Russian-US Young Leadership Fellows for Public Service (YLF) Program concluded with a reunion in Moscow, Russia, reuniting alumni and university sponsors to...

Posted on January 18, 2005 - in Conflict Resolution, Media Development
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A Tajikistani trafficking victim speaks out

Prosecutors in Tajikistan reopened a criminal investigation into a local trafficking ring after the broadcast of an investigative television documentary supported by IREX.

Posted on December 15, 2004 - in Civil Society Strengthening
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President Bush and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, recently nominated to be secretary of state, on Friday met with 21 Russian and five American volunteers at the White House and...

Posted on December 1, 2004 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Education, Research Support
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Lyudmyla Melnyk, established the Cherkasy Center of Drug Addiction and HIV/AIDS

Annually around December 1, IREX mobilizes its broad array of programs and its overseas presence to focus on HIV/AIDS.

Posted on December 1, 2004 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Education, Research Support
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 Contemporary Issues Program fellows visit Washington's Whitman-Walker HIV/AIDS

In observance of World AIDS Day, December 1, the IREX community shares its commitment and its vision—through World AIDS Day special activities as well as new and reinvigorated year-round...

Posted on November 5, 2004 - in International Education, Education, Research Support
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Leonila Guglya, UGRAD fellow, builds a roof through Habitat for Humanity

IREX welcomes the observance of International Education Week, November 15 to 19.

Posted on October 26, 2004 - in Education, Research Support
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On the tenth anniversary of the Contemporary Issues Program (CI) in September, 2004, IREX administered four regional alumni reunions in Kyiv, Ukraine; Moscow, Russia; Tashkent, Uzbekistan; and...