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barabanch (original is here):
A young lady came to interview for a job with a friend of mine.A couple of comments on the post:
She's a "Young Russia" activist.
Under "Professional Accomplishments" [on her resume] the one and only line read "Participated in the inauguration of Dmitry Anatol'evich Medvedev."
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avdeev [my translation, punctuation as in original]:it's funny, but things like that have been happening for awhileby
for example at RGGU they accept [United Russia] party members into the graduate programs, and it's harder for people who haven't been vetted by the office to get in [...]
a couple of my friends were advised by the academic department that before turning in their grad school applications they should pay a visit to the [local United Russia] office, that it would be more correct and predictable to do so
at the office it was suggested that they write an essay about how much I love the motherland, i.e. [United Russia], and how much I want to join the party, well they told [United Russia] to go you-know-where and they submitted their applications anyway, we'll see what happens in September
el_cambio:You don't understand.
[quoting from here, which also seems to have been quoted from a transcript of some kind:] Speaking at [a panel discussion on "the new Russian elite" at the "Strategy-2020 Forum"], Vladislav Surkov called on the participants in the discussion to "determine what the Russian elite is." In response to this, producer Andrei Fomin suggested compiling a "list of the elite," and the Andrei Korkunov, general director of the Odintsovo candy factory, noted that such a list already exists, and pointed out the list of participants in the presidential inauguration in the Kremlin.
2 comments:
Funny to expect higher standards from whom we criticize than from ourselves. Do you think that someone that participated in Dubya's inauguration would silence it on a job application form?
Where I live even the participation in a minor politician inauguration would be a big asset for a prospective employee, and I live in one of the big countries of the European Union. Not that I like it of course, but 'Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in someone else's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?'
Well, I might write about the cronyism of the Bush administration, which has indeed been appalling at times (and which has been fairly well documented by the mainstream media here), but in case you didn't notice this blog is not about the U.S. or the E.U.
And believe it or not, I had a similar thought when I was translating these comments - there are careerists willing to join whatever party required in any country, and being well-connected in whatever the currently fashionable way is can certainly help with college admission sometimes in the U.S. (though usually, in these individualized cases, admissions officers are more concerned about your parents' ability to contribute money than about their or your political affiliation). But in any event, I don't take it upon myself to use this blog to dissect such phenomena worldwide.
And in any event, I actually do think that a young job applicant to a media outlet (which was the case in the story Barabanov described) in the U.S. (if we don't count Fox News) probably would avoid putting something so political as the only "personal accomplishment" on their resume.
Anyway, thanks for your comment. You take beautiful pictures, by the way.
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