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NEWS
08/30 2010
Today we are glad to welcome a new group of students from Belgium, Austria, and Italy. In a week some more students from Estonia will join us. Moreover, we have five students from Belgium, so we are sure, these students will find much in common :) Some of our guests are going to take part in the 2 week Russian courses, others in the 4 week course.
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The Russian Youth: active and ambitiousSTUDY After school Russian young people have several options. They can either enter a university or a college or go to the army (which is obligatory for men unless they have an academic degree and are over 27) or start working immediately (get low-paid positions like sellers in grocery stores etc). Recently higher education has become a must-have for the young as a guarantee of a decent salary, which caused a lack of popularity of blue-collar professions. Basically the most popular professions are management, IT technologies, interpreting, social sphere etc.
More and more Russian students go abroad to study in European and American higher shools, being aware of the benefits of speaking foreign languages and willing to get to know the world.
WORK
Getting a job is a sore spot for the young in Russia, as most employers demand working experience, which young specialist who have just graduated from a university patently do not have. To compensate for this drawback and to have an opportunity to apply for well-payed positions in the future, many Russian students start to work during their study in higher schools – mostly as private teachers for school students or as clerks.
After graduation young people go to work, by the way it would be interesting to mention that quite a number of graduates do not work according to their diploma qualification and opt for other spheres.
RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY ISSUES
Today Russian people are more liberalised than they used to be 20 yars ago. This also affects the relationship patters. For instance, the young are more career-monded than family-oriented, they try to establish a career first, a deserving social position, an own apartment before marrying and forming a family.
This is similar in case of children. Now quite often Russians opt for having a child in their late twenties or even thirties and not more than two (one child per family is more common).
All in all there are several notable tendencies: the growing spread of cohabitation without marrying officially and the growing number (compared to Soviet times) of gay relationships, which arouses concern among older generations.
LEISURE
Internet is one of the most popular ways to spend the free time. Social networks, youtube, news-agensies, forums and blogs have swallowed an overwhelming majority of the young as the best means of comunication across the vast country and the world and a most diverse source of entertainment facilities.
Sport is not so in demand as the Internet but still many try to keep fit by visiting gyms or swimming-pools or by dancing etc.
Weekend nights are spent at nightclubs or musical concerts ranging from punk to classical styles.
by Katya Vdovinets |
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