Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program
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Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program is a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State fosters mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries around the world...

 of the United States Department of State
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.

Established by the United States Congress
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 in 1992 to encourage economic and democratic growth in Eurasia
Eurasia
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, the Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program is administered by IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board
International Research & Exchanges Board
International Research & Exchanges Board is an international nonprofit organization providing leadership and innovative programs to improve the quality of education, strengthen independent media, and foster pluralistic civil society development....

). The program provides opportunities to professionals and emerging leaders from across the former Soviet Union to study in the United States.

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Edmund Muskie
The Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program provides opportunities for graduate students and professionals from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan for one-year non-degree, one-year degree or two-year degree study in the United States.

Eligible fields of study for the Muskie Program are: business administration, economics, education, environmental management, international affairs, journalism and mass communication, law, library and information science, public administration, public health, and public policy.

Established by the US Congress in 1992 to encourage economic and democratic growth in Eurasia, the Muskie program is a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State, and administered by IREX.
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