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March 10, 2010
 Wrestling tournament brings together sportsmen from across Moldova through the USAID-funded, IREX-implemented Moldova Citizen Participation Program (CPP), encouraging collaboration and healthy living. |
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.” |
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November 18, 2009
 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 Uzbekistan studying in GSU’s graduate education program. |
November 13, 2009
 On November 3, 2009, Virginians elected a new governor, and Muskie fellows Alexandru Mocanu and Andriy Olenyuk were in the thick of the excitement as poll monitoring volunteers. |
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February 10, 2009
 Staff from the Moldovan newspaper Ziarul de Garda travelled 8,000 kilometers around Moldova in 2008, meeting citizens and preparing special reports on the corruption they faced in their daily lives. As a result, the paper published more anti-corruption articles than any other newspaper in Moldova. In honor of this achievement, the paper held a ceremony recently to pay tribute to those who made their anti-corruption work possible. The atmosphere in the cold hall warmed considerably as invitees gathered to share gratitude and admire the exhibition of photographs taken during the investigative process. |
February 1, 2009
 From an undergraduate student who had never left Moldova, to First Secretary at his country’s Washington, DC Embassy, it’s been quite a journey for Tudor Ulianovschi. A participant in the Freedom Support Act Undergraduate exchange program (FSAU), now the Global Undergraduate Exchange program (UGRAD), Ulianovschi spent the 2002-2003 academic year studying sociology and law at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. His experience in the United States, and his subsequent work as a program alumni coordinator, helped lay the groundwork for a future career in law and diplomacy. |
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November 15, 2008
 The enthusiasm was palpable during a recent opening ceremony in Porumbeni, where citizens had united to overcome a series of complex logistical and bureaucratic hurdles to improve their water system. The community accomplished a major renovation project to provide safe drinking water for 75 households, a kindergarten, and the local health center. |
October 11, 2008
 In May, Dr. Elizabeth Anderson, newly appointed Assistant Professor in International Training at American University, took advantage of an IREX grant to embark on a journey aimed at understanding a major educational transition. As a specialist in international education and former Peace Corps volunteer in Moldova, Dr. Anderson sought to better understand the transition from the old Moldovan history curriculum to the new one, adopted in 2006. |
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July 30, 2008
 After four months of training, 15 young Moldovan journalists launched the newspaper Scurt Circuit (Short Circuit), which reports on corruption and its effects on youth. As part of their training, the journalists investigated corruption and how it affects their daily lives at school, in their community, and at their university. |
July 30, 2008
 A USAID-funded community improvement project linked the communities of Dorotcaia and Grigoriopol, situated on opposite banks of the river Nistru, which separates the two cities in the jurisdiction of Moldova and the separatist region Transnistria respectively. Despite their political divisions, the estranged citizens joined efforts to integrate their youth. Each day, three buses carried 200 students to Dorotcaia’s high school so that students could study their native language Romanian with Latin characters (instead of Cyrillic ones). |
