russian is in demand (otago etc)

[Emily Tall]

I haven't yet read most of this thread so maybe what I have to say has
been said, but anyway: a student of mine who just spent about a year
working at the American consulate in St. Petersburg interviewed for 2 jobs
while she was there: one with USAID overseeing projects in Novgorod, and
one with a Russian-American construction venture which is already doing
very well, but where the Russian office has no one who knows English and
the American office has no one who knows Russian. So there are jobs... E.
Tall, SUNY/Buffalo (P.S. this student learned basic Russian in the army,
had already served in Germany and Saudi ARabia, and is not yet 25 yrs.
old...