Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 22.09.1994

Federalism in Russia Partnership Program

The Office of Citizen Exchanges of the United States Information Agency's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs announces an open competition for an assistance award program. Public or private non-profit organizations meeting the provisions described in IRS regulation 501(c)(3) may apply to develop training programs which foster permanent professional and political partnerships between Russian regional governments, institutions, political leaders and their American counterparts. The program is designed to increase the commercial, economic, educational, and political ties between Russia and the United States at the regional level. Overall grant making authority for this program is contained in the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, as amended, Pub. L. 87-256, also known as the Fulbright-Hays Act. The purpose of the Act is ``to enable the Government of the United States to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries * * *; to strengthen the ties which unite us with other nations by demonstrating the educational and cultural interests, developments, and achievements of the people of the United States and