jobs in Russian

[Emily Tall]

As New York State goes through its current budget crisis, departments are
being looked at to see if they prepare people for jobs. I plan to
write a short paper for our Dean demonstrating that, yes, Russian is
needed in the real world. I think it could be useful to all of us if
seelangers could post one or two items telling where their undergraduates
are using their Russian (their undergraduates who now graduated, of course.)
Several of ours have taught English in Moscow, one is working at the
American Embassy, and another is at the U.N. At the recent AAASS conference
I was told of a young man who just opened an office of United Way
somewhere north of the Artic Circle for American companies who wanted
to contribute to the local economy (they were located there). Someone
else mentioned ads in the Moscow Times, but we don't get it. Thanks,
fellow seelangers! Emily Tall
mllemily at ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu