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Kazan Model United Nations (MUN) – youth club which was created on the volunteering basis by alumna of the Global UGRAD program Zemfira Khusnutdinova in order to provide to the youth of Kazan series of personal development master classes in English which slogan is “Create yourself-Change the World” and help young people of Kazan to find path of self-improvement.
On the last meeting a great news were announced by the organizers. They told us that one of the exchange students from NSLIY program will come to our meeting in order to talk about US, share his experience about life in Russian and America and answer our questions. It happened on the 8th of April.
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On December 2010 a group from the cities of Tatarstan participated in a Community Connections—Russia program. The delegation of ten specialists from the cities of Kazan, Nizhnekamsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, Almetyevsk of the Republic of Tatarstan traveled to Raleigh, North Carolina. The exchange program included an examination of the issues on healthy lifestyle.
The program is organized and financed by USAID and administrated by Project Harmony, Inc.in Russia.
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Ruslan Garipov holds a Chair of the Department of State and Law Disciplines at Tatar State Humanitarian and Pedagogical University in Kazan, Russia. His areas of interests are Human Rights, Self-Determination Rights, Democracy Development and Indigenous Peoples Rights Protection. He is a member of a number of non-profit organizations which include the Global Alliance for Justice Education (Nashville, Tennessee, USA) and the Russian Association of International Law (Moscow, Russia).
Prior to this Ruslan spent 6 months in the United States where he worked at the Kennan Institute of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, United Nations in NYC and visited American Indian reservations in the south-west. |
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KAZAN - Natalia Lisina is an alumna of Open World program, 2010. She is a dancer and a choreographer. Natalia began dancing when she was5. She created her first short dance theatre pieces “Night”, “Tango”, “Unknown about Known” and “A small problem” while studying choreography at the Kazan State University of Art and Culture. For Natalia, the most important element of dance is communication and the process of exchanging information via movement and dialogue. Natalia took part in different Russian and European festivals and projects, and also studied for one year in Finland. Now she is very interested in American contemporary dance. Participating in Open World program gave Natalia new opportunities. She actively used new information with students at the Kazan State University of Art and Culture. Natalia gave some intensive classes on technique of contemporary dance and improvisation. |

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