internship/volunteer possibilities in Russia?

[Charles Price]

1) Unlimited teaching English opportunities; the pay
varies, though I would try to stay away from those
organisations that you pay to find you an unpaid job.

2) If interested in business, try the Big Five
accountancy firms, western law firms with
representative offices. There are lots of these.

3) The English language newspapers (Moscow Times, St
Petersburg times, the Russia Journal) sometimes have
vacancies for native English speakers to copy edit.

4)I would imagine that there are lots of opportunities
with Russian/European Union funded aid programmes
advising Russian institutions on all kinds of things
from farming development to banking reform. These
projects often require reports to be edited in native
English and so it's worth their while having a
US/British intern doing this at 50 USD per day instead
of a consultant at 600 USD a day.

TACIS (www.tacis.int ?)is the European donor
organisation.

USAID is the American one.

I'm not sure of their web addresses but they can't be
difficult to find.

With persistence there are some very interesting and
reasonably remunerated options.

CP



 --- Katy Harris <katy_harris at YAHOO.COM> wrote: > Have
a look at the website of the German-Russian
> Exchange (GRE)at www.austausch.com, (there's fairly
> detailed info in English as well as in German), they
> regularly send students and young people on
> internships in Russia (not just Germans, people from
> lots of countries) and have contacts to all sorts of
> organisations from social projects to environmental
> projects, placing people in NGOs and in their own
> offices - their website has a good links page to the
> organisations themselves, or you can go through GRE
> who provide quite good organisational support and
> advice, occasionally funding as well, but this is
> usually for longer placements.
> I did an intership through them with an
> environmental
> organisation in Irktusk(www.baikalwave.eu.org),
> which
> was fantastic.
> Hope that helps!
> Katy Harris
>
>
> --- Rebecca Matveyev
> <rebecca.e.matveyev at LAWRENCE.EDU>
> wrote:
> > A student of mine is interested in doing an
> > internship or volunteer work
> > in Russia over the summer.  However, she does not
> > want this program to
> > be connected to a summer study program.  Can
> anyone
> > provide any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Rebecca
> >
> > --
> > Rebecca Epstein Matveyev
> > Assistant Professor of Russian
> > Lawrence University
> > 115 S. Drew St.
> > Appleton, WI 54912
> > (920) 832-6710
> > matveyer at lawrence.edu
> >
> >
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