Under the sponsorship of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and technical assistance of Management Systems International (MSI) the Partnership Against Corruption program supports the development of comprehensive anticorruption programs in the regions of the Russian Federation. The program facilitates close cooperation and dialogue among government, civil society and private sector leaders by establishing Anti-Corruption Partnerships that develop and direct comprehensive strategies to prevent and reduce corruption. Implementation of the program began in 2001 in Samara and Tomsk oblasts, and were later adopted in Irkutsk oblast and the Russian Far East. Activities will begin in Khabarovsk kray, and the Sakhalin and Kamchatka regions in the Fall of 2005.
On July 29 about thirty representatives of Sakhalin NGOs visited a meeting with the administration of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk conducted by Olga Likhacheva, Grant Manager, and representatives of Primorye Anticorruption Coalition. Speakers presented the program and its activity in other parts of Russia, involved the attendees in the discussions concerning the problem of corruption and priorities on that matter in Sakhalin.

On July, 28-29th, Diddy R.M. Hitchins, Ph.D. MBE, Professor of Political Science at the University of Alaska Anchorage visited Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The purpose of her visit was to learn more about politics in the Russian Far East in the postsoviet period to the present time, to include in a course on Russian Far East Politics that will be part of a new educational program for students of the University of Alaska Anchorage, permitting them to take a major in International Studies with a focus on the Russian Far East and the North Pacific Region. In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Professor Hitchins had meetings with A.T.Konkov, the head of sub-faculty of Sociology at the Institute of History, Sociology and Management of Sakhalin State University; E.J.Vygolov, professor of economy of SSU; and N.V.Rozanovoj, the head of economic policy department for Yuzhno-Sakhalin Administration.. Dr. Hitchins also was present at a meeting at which the regional "Anti-corruption Partnership" program was presented, at the Administration of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Professor Hitchins received scheduling and logistical assistance from the Regional Initiative.

Between July 21 and 22, within the framework of the program “International Access and Training Program” implemented by Project Harmony, the conference named “Information Technologies in Effective Project Management” was held in Vladivostok. It was conducted for U.S. Department of State alumnus (FLEX, CC, CI, BFR, OW, IV, JEDP). The main purposes of the conference were to 1) introduce various IT for planning projects and for management an organization to alumnus, and 2) discuss successful and failed examples of IT application. The program of the conference included presentations of the participants, various discussions and master-classes on various topics. Twenty-five alumni from Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Blagoveschensk, Yakutsk and other RFE cities participated in this event.