“A lot of people probably thought that I worked hard to get the award, but once I received it, I would stop. Now I have a lot more cases” –Aiman Umarova said about receiving the International Woman of Courage Award Aiman Umarova is a human rights lawyer, member of the National Council of Public Trust U.S. State Department Exchange Program: IVLP “Women preventing violent extremism and terrorism” (2015), IVLP “Combating violence against women and children” (2018) Facebook: aiman.umarova Instagram: @aiman_umarova …
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By U.S. Mission Kazakhstan | 8 March, 2021 | Topics: Education, History, Success Stories, U.S. & Kazakhstan | Tags: uskz30
“Getting an education in the USA has always been my dream”: Assem Izmukhanova about the Fulbright FLTA program Assem Izmukhanova – Senior Teacher of English at Almaty Management University Program: Fulbright FLTA Instagram: @mandniche Getting an education in the USA has always been my dream. I have an uncle who showed me that studying in the US is possible. By looking …
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By U.S. Mission Kazakhstan | 21 February, 2021 | Topics: Education, Success Stories, U.S. & Kazakhstan
“My life has turned 360 degrees”: Aigerim Khafizova about the training program and a trip to the USA Aigerim Khafizova – Co-founder and Manager of the Edgravity Online-University Program: Fulbright Foreign Student Program (2015, New York, USA), Edmund S. Muskie Internship Program (2015, San Francisco, USA) “The Fulbright program was my dream” – The Fulbright program …
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By U.S. Mission Kazakhstan | 30 January, 2021 | Topics: Education, Success Stories, U.S. & Kazakhstan
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By U.S. Mission Kazakhstan | 23 January, 2020 | Topics: Success Stories
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesperson For Immediate Release MEDIA NOTE December 4, 2019 U.S.–Kazakhstan Enhanced Strategic Partnership Dialogue Today, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells welcomed Deputy Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Yerzhan Ashikbayev for the U.S.-Kazakhstan Enhanced Strategic Partnership Dialogue (ESPD). The ESPD was established two …
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By U.S. Mission Kazakhstan | 5 December, 2019 | Topics: embassy, News, Press Releases, Success Stories
Students from al-Farabi National Kazakh University’s (KazNU) journalism program are learning more about news and reporting in the United States from UW’s Department of Communication and Journalism. They are at UW as part of their requirements to travel internationally to learn about another country’s media.
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By U.S. Mission Kazakhstan | 19 June, 2018 | Topics: Success Stories, U.S. & Kazakhstan
Lehigh University International Relations Professor Dinissa Duvanova was selected to receive the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship. Professor Duvanova will use the Fulbright Scholarship to combine fieldwork for her book project: “Regulatory Discretion and Discretionary Regulation in Post-Communist States” and teaching at Alma University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Professor Duvanova’s field research focuses on state regulation of business and how it affects Kazakhstani investment climate. …
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By U.S. Mission Kazakhstan | 23 January, 2018 | Topics: Education, Success Stories
More than a month has passed since the beginning of our English classes in one of the children’s homes in Astana. All week I look forward to the weekend to start preparing for the lesson again: to outline my lesson plan, to grade homework, to find various games and assignments, so that lessons would be …
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By U.S. Mission Kazakhstan | 26 October, 2017 | Topics: Success Stories
WOMEN BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND KAZAKHSTAN. Graduate of the of the Department of State’s IVLP program, 2016, I work for the North Kazakhstan Media Legal Centre. The organization provides legal protection for journalists, helps draw up laws, in particular, the one which are being discussed now, and aspires to make freedom of …
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By U.S. Mission Kazakhstan | 6 March, 2017 | Topics: Success Stories
WOMEN BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND KAZAKHSTAN. Graduate of the Edmund S. Muskie Fellowship Program (Muskie). I worked for the Big Four, including for 10 years in New York and Philadelphia. The time I spent in the U.S. broadened my horizons in terms of perceiving the world. I have started setting myself substantial objectives. I try …
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By U.S. Mission Kazakhstan | 6 March, 2017 | Topics: Success Stories
WOMEN BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND KAZAKHSTAN. Graduate of the US State Department International Visitors Program U.S. “Political campaigns and media”, 2004.One of the 20 observers from all over the world who monitored the election campaign in the U.S. and visited five states in four weeks. In 2012, participated in the Women in …
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By U.S. Mission Kazakhstan | 4 March, 2017 | Topics: Success Stories
WOMEN BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND KAZAKHSTAN. Ainur Kagarmanova is currently working on her Bachelor’s degree in Biology with a minor in Political Science at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. After her 10th grade she went to the U.S. on a year long cultural exchange FLEX program. Since then Ainur’s interest in interfaith …
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By U.S. Mission Kazakhstan | 4 March, 2017 | Topics: Success Stories
WOMEN BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND KAZAKHSTAN. I spent a year at a school in г Kerrville, Texas on the Rotary Club cultural exchange programme. Government and External Relations Manager with an overall responsibility for government relations, external and internal communications, and social performance of Shell Kazakhstan in March 2016 following Shell-BG combination. …
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By U.S. Mission Kazakhstan | 3 March, 2017 | Topics: Success Stories
WOMEN BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND KAZAKHSTAN. Graduate of the of the Department of State’s IVLP program, 2016, I work as a lawyer for the Media Legal Centre. As such I specialize in drawing up laws, provide consultancy services and conduct legal trainings for journalists and NGOs. The trip to the USA provided …
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By U.S. Mission Kazakhstan | 2 March, 2017 | Topics: Success Stories
WOMEN BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND KAZAKHSTAN. Graduate of the Department of State’s IVLP program ‘NGO Management of Youth Programs’. Having completed the program, I set up a public foundation Zamandas21 whose main recipients were children and teenagers from low income and large families. Since 2010 we have been organizing after school activities …
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By U.S. Mission Kazakhstan | 1 March, 2017 | Topics: Success Stories, U.S. & Kazakhstan
