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Posted on March 25, 2010 - in Media Development
In the nearly 20 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, numerous Russian media outlets have become dynamic multimedia organizations, while others have struggled with how to incorporate...
It began as a small-budget project intended to connect the scholarly community with US foreign policy practitioners in Eurasia. EPS scholars traveled to the region and served US Embassies and...
Posted on March 1, 2010 - in Youth
The USAID-funded Youth Development Competencies Program (YDCP), implemented by IREX, won Petrozavodsk’s 2009 award for Innovation of the Year.
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...
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...
Over 120,000 children are estimated to be abandoned or orphaned each year in Russia. Yet even those living with their birth parents do not always receive the parental care that every child...
Posted on September 22, 2009 - in Media Development
Ira Glass, host of Chicago Public Radio’s This American Life, spoke to more than 200 Russian regional radio journalists in Moscow during the Together Radio Festival this summer.
Located only 30km from the Chinese border, the Khabarovsk State Academy of Economics and Law (KSAEL) attracts many Chinese students pursuing higher education abroad.
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...
