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April 28, 2010
 In the wake of the recent political unrest in Kyrgyzstan, longtime IREX alumnus and Stetson University professor Eugene Huskey provided expert testimony to the US Congress on April 22. |
April 8, 2010
 Muskie fellow Ibragimdzhon (Ibrahim) Rustamov brings students at a local elementary school in Connecticut to different classrooms around the world. |
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March 25, 2010
 In the nearly 20 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, numerous Russian media outlets have become dynamic multimedia organizations, while others have struggled with how to incorporate new technologies. |
March 24, 2010
 Through IREX’s Teaching Fellowship Program for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, Leila Zakhirova, a 2009-2010 visiting professor at Whittier College, has made a significant impact on campus. |
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March 2, 2010
 In the asphalt courtyard outside Zarqa Preparatory Boys School #2, Samer Abu Koush watches 22 young boys chase after a bright red soccer ball. As their teacher and coach, Abu Koush knows that many of the boys have grown up in a refugee camp. |
January 12, 2010
 The intersection of broadband internet access and community libraries as “anchor institutions” was the focus of the latest installment of IREX’s Technology Serving Civil Society Speakers Series, held on January 12, 2010 at the World Bank in Washington, DC. |
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December 18, 2009
 In 2008, Dr. Kemal Goshliyev returned to the Central Skin and Venereal Disease Hospital in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan with a master’s degree in public health and a commitment to improve the institution he’d worked at for over 10 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. |
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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. |
