Dear friends,
Valery Kostin - CCUSA country director - gave an interview to Passport magazine telling about CCUSA and CCRussia history and present. If you are interested, click here to read thearticle

Dear friends! Thak you for participating in our annual contest! We are happy to announce 2008 year winner - Olga Chumakova, Velikiy Novgorod! We are gifting Olga portable hard disk (250GB) to store all her wonderful pictures! Congratulations Olga!

1 December 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day.Currently, there are 33 million people living with HIV in the world. Every day in Russia, on average 110-120 new cases of HIV- infection are registered. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS ) has the honor of inviting you to the opening ceremony of the photography exhibit Stars against AIDS on December 1, 2008 at 17:00 in the All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature (1 Nikoloyamskaya str, Taganskaya station).Panoramic portraits for the project Stars against AIDS were taken by a famous photographer Serge Golovach. Marina Aleksandrova, Dina Korzun, Diana Gurtskaya, Elena Khanga, Tatiana Mitkova, Svetlana Khorkina, Svetlana Zakharova and others are among the participants of the project.Singer Diana Gurtskaya and writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya will participate in the ceremony of exhibition opening.Free entrance. December 1, 17:00, 1 Nikoloyamskaya str., Taganskaya station.www. unaids.ru, www.libfl.ru

Dear participants! As we are still receiving your works, we made a decision to prolong Photo and Story Contest till December 1st. If you haven't shared with us your works yet, don't miss your chance to tell others your emotions, achivements, impressions and happy moments.

Dear participants of Work Experience Program!We would like to remind you that you can apply for tax refunds (Federal Tax and State & City Tax)via CCUSA Tax Service. If you filled out Contarct and Power of Attorney at the pre-departure meeting, follow the link Tax Refund and check if you are in the list.

As you have probably noticed we have started acceptance for both CCUSA and WEUSAprograms and our online application center is open for you! Some people that managedcompleting an application before October 1 even get a discount! For those of you stillthinking the time to apply is now so you can get a better and faster placement andfinalize your summer plans early! The best summer of your life is waiting for you!

Dear friends! Your summer is over. We are sure you have tons of beautiful, creative and fun pictures and exciting stories! Please, share them with us! We will post the best at our web site and the very best photos and stories will be awarded with valuable prizes. We are looking forward to see your works! Please, email them at xenia@ccusa.ru before November 1st, 2008.

Dear participants of CCUSA and WEUSA!
Hope you have had or still are having a great summer! But many of you are back home already or planning to be there soon. We would like to remind you that upon return home you have to turn your DS form and your boarding passes in to our Moscow office or your area representative ASAP! It is very important as we uses these to prove your return to the US embassy and failure to submit this proof can result in your future problems with the US visas. Congratulations on the beginning of the school year!

Dear Camp Counselors USA participants!
We hope your summer is going great in the US! Please note that the policy number for CCUSA program has been changed, now it is FR32/620.624 and just to remind you the emergency service is being provided by Select Care 1-888-551-9798 (toll free inside the US) 1-416-340-7317 (direct - collect calls accepted). If you have the old numbers in your info letters please correct them. The information has been also corrected at footprints.
Enjoy your summer!

Dear participants!
We have to inform you that there has been a change in the predeparture orientation place for the whole season. ALL THE ORINTATIONS till the rest of the season will take place at GASIS at Kibalchicha, 7, VDNKH. Please check the information at your personal page here again to confirm the information as it has been corrected for you.
Thank you and good luck!