VOA’s Ukrainian Service celebrated 60 years of broadcasting on December 11 with a reception and two panel discussions. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, joined BBG Governor Blanquita Cullum, Ukrainian Ambassador Oleh Shamshur, and VOA Director Danforth Austin in celebrating the event.
Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in the House and co-chair of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, said VOA has long played a role in delivering “accurate, balanced and comprehensive news and information” to Ukraine.
In an interview with VOA’s Indonesian Service, Maya Soetoro-Ng, President Obama's half-sister, said her brother, who lived in Indonesia as a child, has a broad world view and "recognizes that we need to work in concert" with people around the world. Ms. Soetoro-Ng also praised her late mother, S. Ann
Dunham, who wrote her Ph.D thesis about village life in Indonesia.
Ronald Cesar, chief of VOA’s Creole Service, spoke to Foreign Service Officers at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Va., about the growing role of Haitian-Americans in U.S. politics. Haiti’s constitution prevents dual citizenship.
Cub Scout Pack 420 from Leonardtown, Md., took took the VOA Studio Tour in December. Gy Williams and Piero Ciancio talked to them after the tour. Other visitors to VOA included Chinese news editors, American University students and Scripps Howard staff.
Spozhmai Maiwandi, director of VOA’s South Asia Division, and Bart Childs of VOA’s TV Enhancement Team, traveled to Dubai to train eleven VOA Afghan stringers in new television techniques. The training was funded under a grant from the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.
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