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May 19, 2011
 Anna Derevnina is at the forefront of innovation in the Russian university system by strengthening partnerships between businesses and academia at her university. As Dean of the Information Business Systems Department at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), she helps prepare graduate students for work in business. Inspired by her University Administration Support Program fellowship, Derevnina is now changing corporate relations at MIPT. |
May 12, 2011
 The smile, stickers and Halloween candy I’d brought as a USRVI volunteer weren’t enough. Sasha needed much more than I could give in just one hour, and I had no idea where to start. At 15, he had run away from the orphanage to go home—many children in Russian state institutions have at least one living parent—and found things there in a state of chaos. Orphanage staff heard he was begging on the local electrichka train, found him and brought him back. |
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April 28, 2011
 Evgeny Ulyumdzhiev is a Muskie fellow studying law at the Northwestern University School of Law. Before arriving in the US in the fall of 2010, Ulyumdzhiev was an attorney in Russia. He plans to return home and continue practicing law next year. Ulyumdzhiev reflects on thecommunity service he completed this semester providing free legal advice to disadvantaged citizens. |
April 15, 2011
 Russian youth specialists know that getting adults to embrace principles of youth empowerment doesn’t come easily. The traditional Russian approach to working with youth focuses on preventing negative behaviors, rather than building on positive abilities or working with young people as partners. |
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April 7, 2011
 Interviewing victims of trafficking and their rescuers is difficult work. There are few happy endings. However, occasionally one meets someone who emerges from unspeakable suffering with courage, clarity, and wisdom. Marina is such a woman. |
April 4, 2011
 Bringing Youth Government to Rural Russia The longer I live in Russia, the more I see similarities with the United States. Then there are moments where I am reminded of the tremendous differences. One of these moments happened last week while I was attending a youth government training in Kotovsk, a town of about 27,000 people in Tambov, one of the more conservative regions of Russia. The training was part of the USAID-funded Youth Development Competencies Program (YDCP), which in its fourth year is working to empower youth and effect change in youth policy in three Russian regions, including Tambov. |
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March 23, 2011
 Muskie fellow Svetlana Kurtova, a non-profit program manager from Russia, knows the importance of effective communications. While studying in American University’s Master of Public Administration program, Kurtova is expanding her creative and technical skills at ATV, American University’s student-run television station. |
January 26, 2011
 News coverage in the immediate aftermath of the bombing at Domodedovo airport came not from the television, but from blogs and tweets. Television news was slow to react to the terrorist attack. However, it did eventually switch to live coverage which dependended heavily on using YouTube footage and twitter feeds as primary source material. |
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January 11, 2011
 IREX is working to make a better world through its efforts to fight human trafficking. |
January 5, 2011
 What do NGOs focusing on women’s human rights, housing, child protection and higher education have in common? Much, when it comes to promoting joint Russian-American efforts to solve pressing social problems. |
