FLEX Alumna Anastasia Osminina ’08 participant at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2014
Anastasia Osminina ’08 (Vologda, Russia/Blue Springs, MO) will join over 3000 entrepreneurs, together with heads of state including U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, high...
Host Dad Visits Russia after 18 years
Dmitriy Plyushchev '95
Moscow, Russia/Colorado Springs, CO
Bob Wardwell, an engineer and inventor from Colorado, has raised seven children and hosted two exchange students. It was back...
Call for Applications: Cycle 6 of the Russia Alumni Mentoring Program
The FLEX Alumni program in cooperation with the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia proudly announces the launch of the Russia ALUMNI MENTORING Program.
This six-month-long...
Yulia Simonova ’02 ‘Every Student with a Disability Must Have Choices’
I remember that my flight to the U.S. was on Friday 13 – I was trembling – it was the first time that I...
Welcome Home!
Andrey Yakovlev ‘95
St. Petersburg, Russia/Warrenton, VA
andrew_yakovlev yahoo com
It has been 15 years since I returned from the FLEX program. Since then I...
Summertime Childness
Nadezhda Abashina ’11
Cheboksary, Russia/Staunton, IL
As a former FLEX city representative, I’ve participated in a lot of projects, but there will always be that one...
Love at First Sight: Stories of Alumni Falling In Love With Their Host Communities...
The most exciting part of becoming an exchange student is getting to experience a different culture and meeting new people. Ever since the inception...
2017 FLEX Alumni Reunion in Russia
Over 80 alumni from all over Russia gathered for the traditional annual FLEX Alumni reunion on September 9th at a modern loft space in...
Networking Master Class for FLEX Alumni in Russia
On the weekend of January 14-15, 40 FLEX alumni living in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia attended a professional networking master class led by...
A Host Mother’s Reflection on Hosting
By Jane Kipp Scott (Julesburg, CO / Host mother to Fidar Bedoshvili '10)
I have never been the type of person to write about anything...