September 12, 2007
For Immediate Release
For an interview:
Maryna Storrs
(801) 863-8897
Zamira Sydykova, the United States ambassador from Kyrgyzstan, will be visiting Utah Valley State College campus from Sept. 15 to 18. As part of her visit, she will be lecturing Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. in LA 107.
“We have several ambassadors come throughout the year,” said Aliia Kodzhoshalieva, international affairs assistant. “We have a great relationship with Kyrgyzstan and we enjoy every time Zamira Sydykova comes.”
Sydykova was a member of the journalism faculty at Moscow State University and shortly after the dissolve of the Soviet Union, founded Kyrgyzstan’s first independent newspaper, Respublica. Through the years, she fought for a free press in Kyrgyzstan and was thrown in prison because of it. Authorities also attempted to close the newspaper.
In 2000, she was awarded the Courage in Journalism Award by the International Women’s Media Foundation for her accomplishments, and was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the USA and Canada in March 2005.
For more information, contact international affairs at (801)
863-7191. The lecture is free and open to the public.
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Scotty Spjut
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