Business Leader Sergey Kulyagin ‘97: ‘International experience got me through the door –...
‘FLEX was the springboard experience of my life. It exposed me to the side of my personality which I wouldn’t have discovered otherwise –...
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...
Senior FLEX Alumni Support Generation FLEX
Forty FSA/FLEX alumni from the first years of the exchange program (1994-2000) gathered for a fundraising-networking event hosted by the Philips Corporation in Moscow...
2016 FLEX Alumni Russia Mentoring Program Launch
The FLEX Alumni program in cooperation with the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia launched the first of two six month-long mentoring program aimed to...
Yevgeniy Lukyanov ’05 from Volgograd is Co-founder of Food Delivery Company Express Panda
Yevgeniy Lukyanov '05
Home town: Volgograd, Russia
U.S. City and State: Niagara Falls, NY
Year returned home: 2005
Education: MA in Radio Physics , BA in Economics. Volgograd...
Changing Host Families
Mariya Guzenko ‘03
Chelyabinsk, Russia/Farmington, PA
emelle yandex ru
It’s obvious that a good rapport with the family is the student’s guarantee of a successful...
iCheers from Olympic Sochi!
Olympic cheers to you, my fellow FLEXers!
Games in Sochi are at the full blast, so it’s high time to share with...
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...
TV Interview and Beach Clean Up
On August 7, Arkhangelsk City Representative Yevgeniy Lapin ’13 organized Severnaya Dvina Riverand beach clean up and arranged for TV news coverage of the...
Yulia (Mokshina) Sushkova ’95 (Saransk, Russia): Professor, Writer and Radio Show Presenter
Yulia (Mokshina) Sushkova ‘95
Saransk, Russia / Naples, Florida
Education: Law Degree in 2001, PhD (2003) and Doctoral Degree (2009) in Ethnology and Anthropology from Ogarev...