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January 18, 2005
by Russell Peasgood and Maggie McDonough
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.

January 18, 2005
 UNEM’s Executive Director Ranko Vujovic

Through an unprecedented, transparent and inclusive media law reform process, due in large part to the technical assistance and media expertise provided through the auspices of the Montenegro Independent Media Program (MIMP), the Montenegrin civil society has replaced the government at the helm of Radio and Television of Montenegro (RTCG).

January 6, 2005
by Natalia Cernat
Meeting participants in Telenesti

IREX recently launched its USAID-funded Moldova Citizen Participation Program (CPP) with a powerful outreach and assessment campaign, reaching diverse populations in all regions of the Republic of Moldova.

December 15, 2004

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 praised the US-Russia Volunteer Initiative (USRVI), a new program providing exchanges of volunteers between the United States and Russia.

December 9, 2004
by Michael Clarke
Conference participants

IREX recently organized and hosted a State Department Middle East Partnership Initiative and USAID-funded workshop, “Strategies for Sustainable Media Development for the Middle East and North Africa,” in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

December 1, 2004
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.

December 1, 2004
 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 initiatives—to combating HIV/AIDS.

November 5, 2004
Leonila Guglya, UGRAD fellow, builds a roof through Habitat for Humanity

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

November 5, 2004
Mikheil Saakashvili, Muskie Fellowship alumnus and president of Georgia

IREX welcomes the observance of International Education Week, November 15 to 19, a joint initiative of the US Department of State and the US Department of Education to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchanges worldwide.

October 26, 2004

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 Tbilisi, Georgia, to celebrate the exceptional accomplishments of the program’s alumni.