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February 9, 2011
 Sheki, a city of 63,000 two hundred miles north of Baku in the Caucasus mountains, hosts one of IREX’s f.y.i. Community Information Centers that provides provides local residents with IT skills, citizen journalism training, and access to the Internet. Seven young women who took advantage of the center’s trainings this past autumn used the skills they developed to land jobs. |
January 28, 2011
 IREX recently launched the Azerbaijan New Media Project, supporting professional and citizen journalists and promoting access to and the use of the internet for news, information, and education. |
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December 14, 2010
 Alumni of US exchange programs take part in a 2010 Career Day and Job Fair held by the US-Educated Azerbaijan Alumni Association (AAA). |
December 10, 2010
 Participants of the Global UGRAD in Eurasia and Central Asia program get involved in events in their host communities. |
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August 18, 2010
One of my favorite things about working for IREX’s media development division is the chance to learn more about what kind of media makes people tick all around the world. |
July 7, 2010
 Whether they assist low income individuals to file their tax returns, teach financial literacy, or volunteer at a local food bank, Muskies are making a crucial impact on their American hosts at a time when there is an urgent need for this aid. |
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May 12, 2010
 Elvin, an earnest exchange student studying at Berea College, Kentucky is savoring his last days in the United States before he has to return home to Mingächevir, Azerbaijan. |
April 1, 2010
 Congratulations to Aleksandar Stojkovic for his winning photo of his colleague Srdjan Ilic on an improvised anchor chair during an in-house training IREX arranged for their television station, TV 017 in Vranje (through the Serbia Media Assistance Program). |
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March 11, 2010
 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 Consulates as policy specialists-in-residence for one to two months. |
February 8, 2010
 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 tears as he answered that he wanted an older brother—but knew it was impossible. Touched, Almammadova resolved “to make the impossible possible for kids like him.” |
