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Muskie Fellow Connects American Students to Classrooms around the World April 8, 2010 Muskie fellow Ibragimdzhon (Ibrahim) Rustamov brings students at a local elementary school in Connecticut to different classrooms around the world.	US Embassy Policy Specialist Program Attracts More Embassies and a Growing Number of Scholars 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.
Muskie Fellow Volunteers to Teach University's First Russian Course in Twelve Years 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.	IREX Civic Education Fair Demonstrates New Models for Teachers December 3, 2008 On a recent morning at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, secondary-school teachers from Bangladesh, Turkmenistan, and the United States came together to discuss strategies to teach the Holocaust to teenagers. A few feet away, Americans, Indians, and Georgians talked about slam poetry, an urban genre of literature that is often highly political and uses injustices based on race, gender, or economic status as its subject matter.
Fellows Participate in Public Health Conference October 30, 2008 Mavzuna Burkhanova and Nelli Darbinyan attended the American Public Health Association’s 136th Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Diego.	Tajik Websites Provide Access to Literary Heritage April 30, 2008 Geographically remote Tajikistan lays claim to several highly influential poets, though readily available information in Tajik about them has been very limited. With funding for literature preservation and printing in short supply, there is an increasing threat of losing cultural heritage and people growing up without knowledge of the country’s literary past.
Web Presence Invigorates Tourism in Georgia, Agriculture in Tajikistan December 20, 2007 Small business owners from across Eurasia are reaching new customers and increasing their business contacts through websites they’ve created as a result of training from the IREX-administered Internet Access and Training Program (IATP).	Young Journalists from Ferghana Valley Learn Hard-Hitting Journalism September 14, 2006 Twenty-one teenage journalists from four countries in the Ferghana Valley honed their investigative reporting and Internet research skills thanks to a grant from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Local Tajik NGO Fights Bribery through Media and Public Discussion April 4, 2006 In Tajikistan today, the existence of corruption is as pervasive as society’s indifference to corruption. Low wages, high unemployment, and the absence of functioning civic institutions or invested, responsible government all contribute to a sense of helplessness permeating the Tajik landscape, while the wary population has come to see corruption as a normal phenomenon.	Online Chats in Central Asia and the Caucasus Create Forums for Women to Discuss Issues March 23, 2006 Each March in honor of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, people around the world celebrate women and their role in society and the community.