Practice in the State Duma with employment. About the project

18.09.2014
How to get an internship in the State Duma.

Victoria Razova, a 5th year student at NSUEU, shares her experience.

5th year student of NSUEU Victoria Razova completed a summer internship at the State Duma of the Russian Federation. A correspondent for the newspaper “Our Academy” talks to her about this.

- How did you come up with the idea of ​​the State Duma?

The session ended in May, and the question arose of where to go for a month and a half internship; the profile had to be chosen in economics. In Novosibirsk, consider me to have tried everything: I even worked in the government of the Novosibirsk region. I am an ambitious girl, I set high goals for myself. I was thinking: where to go - St. Petersburg or Moscow? I wanted to get to St. Petersburg, but it didn’t work out, but everything grew together with the capital. A week passed after my requests, and on the fifth of July I already sat on the committee on housing policy and housing and communal services in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, and, in fact, from that day my practice began. I set the bar, I reached the bar, and I won’t settle for anything less.

I just called the reception office of the State Duma, told about my goals, explained what I needed, what I wanted, and they met me halfway. I sent documents, a resume, in which I told who I am. And that's all. They called me back and said: “Victoria, we are waiting for you, come.” It seems to me that there is such a cliché idea that some unearthly beings work in the State Duma, that it is impossible for ordinary people to get there, that everything there is paid for. But, in fact, if you have a great desire, then all doors open for you, including the State Duma. There are, of course, certain difficulties, as everywhere else, but everything is possible.

- What was your job?

In any committee, the main function is to work with citizens' appeals. This is the first thing they taught me. I processed a bunch of letters and complaints, especially since the housing and communal services sector is, as they say, in the “top” in terms of problems. I plunged into this kitchen headlong, sent requests, received responses. This is all, naturally, under the control of my practice manager, leading specialist Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Vorobyov. I also organized committee meetings where amendments to bills are discussed. “Before my eyes,” three bills were adopted, according to which the country now lives, and one can say that I had a little hand in this.

- What are your general impressions of the State Duma?

In general, the corridors of the State Duma are empty, everyone sits behind closed doors, no one just walks around. People are different, but I have met open, responsive employees and colleagues with whom I worked. I have not met any political stars. I was on an excursion at a plenary session, they are often shown on TV, and I was able to see Valuev and Kobzon from afar. Also, I will confirm that a snack in the State Duma is quite inexpensive; my lunch, for example, cost 120-150 rubles. There are quite a lot of canteens and a buffet where you can eat a variety of meals and drink coffee. Everything looks like in Soviet times, which I can imagine from films: cute barmaids in aprons, friendly, everything is great.

- How did the practice end?

The result of the practice was an exam on legislative activity in our country and the regulations of the State Duma. In addition, it was necessary to show legislative initiative: I tried to amend the bill and argued why it needed to be adopted.

- Are you planning to work now - in the State Duma?

I want to work in the housing and communal services system, because I am the very youth who must reorganize this area, improve housing policy in our region, we will still have to start in Novosibirsk, and then we’ll see. I am planning to write a diploma in the housing and communal services sector, I have an idea to go to the State Duma for pre-graduation practice, and now I am thinking about the topic of the work.

Staff correspondent of the newspaper “Our Academy” Lera Sukhinina

P.S.: The example of Victoria Razova inspired you and do you also want to work in the housing and communal services sector?

This is an invitation for you.

On November 5, as part of the “My Comfortable Home” project, an educational program will start aimed at training young specialists for the housing and communal services sector.

The program is implemented by the Youth Policy Directorate of the Ministry of Regional Policy of the Novosibirsk Region, with the support of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services.

The goal of the educational program is to prepare young people to work in the housing and communal services industry as project managers and civil activists.

Participants will undergo an educational course consisting of two blocks.

The first block is aimed at personal growth; participants will attend trainings on topics such as personal effectiveness, team building, public speaking, conflict management and design.

The second block is profiling - “Fundamentals of housing and communal services”. Participants will listen to lectures on legislation in the field of housing and communal services, comparative analysis of methods of managing apartment buildings, maintenance and repair of building structures and communications, etc.

The project experts will be: the head of the “Business System” project A. Kim, the general director of the Management Company “SPAS-Dom” V.B. Bulychev, Chairman of the Board of Non-Profit Partnership “Household Association Consulting Center” A.Yu. Malov, head of the recruitment agency and IT academy of Alexey Sukhorukov - A. Sukhorukov, deputy head of the State Housing Inspectorate of the Novosibirsk Region L.G. Konovalov.

At the end of the educational course, participants are given the opportunity to undergo an internship in leading management companies and HOAs of Novosibirsk, the mayor's office of Novosibirsk, and government bodies of the Novosibirsk region.

During the period from 2012 to 2014, more than 500 people completed the educational program. More than 150 completed internships at the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Novosibirsk Region, the Department of Energy, Housing and Communal Services of Novosibirsk. More than 30 people took part in the Seliger International Educational Forum. More than 20 projects in the housing and communal services sector have been launched.

Applications for participation in the “My Comfortable Home” program are accepted until October 31 by calling 89138990915 (Daria)

23/05/2011

A student blogger at one of the Moscow universities, writing in LiveJournal under the nickname yeenzo, shared in his online diary his impressions of a week spent in practice “in one of the shrines of Russian statehood - the State Duma of the Russian Federation.”

U What he saw in the lower house of the Russian parliament did not leave the best impression on the student. The trainee admitted that during the check of transport documents related to the transportation of parliamentarians assigned to him, he found a lot of interesting things. The blogger claims that a number of deputies like to travel on their personal business at the expense of budget funds. And some of them manage to spend 50 thousand rubles at the airport while waiting for their flight, notes the trainee. However, the student received the most negative impressions from attending the State Duma meeting: “The hall is less than a quarter full, and those who are there are busy with everything except the meeting itself and laws.” As the student writes, the deputies chat with each other, read newspapers, and generally play cards in the back rows - “this is not parliament, but an office smoking room.”

“I ended up in the office for transport support for deputies,” writes yeenzo. - This is a department that accepts invoices from Russian Railways and airlines for the transportation of our deputies. We must carefully analyze these accounts, check them, enter them into a computer database, take them to the boss for a visa and then to the accounting department. The work is not difficult, but a little routine.”

“We simply take the register with the deputies with the account and the amount and compare it with our list of deputies, simultaneously catching the buggies,” the student clarified. - First of all, you need to catch serious ones - lack of mandatory attachments, seals, stamps, signatures on all documents, checksum. Next we look for smaller bugs.”

Such violations were discovered “on the very first day. For example, some deputies are trying to smuggle one of their friends through their ID or even fly to places where they are not entitled to free travel - abroad,” the blogger said. “In this case, the controversial position must be crossed out and the amount recalculated.”

As yeenzo writes, “in general, there are a lot of interesting things going on in these accounts.”

“For example, our everything, Joseph Kobzon flew to Kaliningrad for his concert for the regional administration at the expense of the Duma. Khorkina also abuses the Duma budget at home to relatives,” said the student. - There are deputies with the same last name on the lists. Father and son often sit there at the same time. The average bill amount is 3 million. Some other deputies manage to waste up to 50 grand stupidly in the terminal while waiting for their flight.”

According to a practical student, “sometimes the State Duma causes cognitive dissonance”: “in the hall of the second building they sell books about bad Putin, about Khodorkovsky, WikiLeaks dirt on Russia, revelations of senior officials, etc. I haven’t found anything about Navalny, but I think it will appear soon too.”

“They sell expensive alcohol in stalls - Black Label for 1,700 rubles. liter,” writes the blogger. “There is also a jewelry shop where they sell icons, Easter eggs, soft toys, rings and everything of divine beauty.”

“In the passage of the first floor there is a smoking room (apparently the only one in two buildings), there is also an agricultural exhibition there, they sell seedlings, seeds, and equipment. Expensive, really. Very expensive. Petunia 400 rubles. In our market the same price is 39 rubles,” continues the student. “...On the other side there is a photo exhibition of the Russian Orthodox Church - icons, patriarchs, churches.”

“In general, the Russian Orthodox Church is deeply entrenched in the State Duma - there are icons in all the offices, there are many church shops, every day you see some kind of priest,” the blogger noted.

But judging by the published post, what most struck the student trainee was the State Duma meeting.

“Today we were at a meeting of the State Duma, right in the hall,” says the blogger. - Visits are strictly limited in time and there is more noise at the entrance to the hall than at the entrance to the building. The FSP officers immediately took our phones and cameras from us at the entrance, and as it turned out, for good reason. What we saw there caused everyone to be bewildered: WTF?!?!?!”

“Of course, we knew that the deputies were racist, but to what extent... I have never seen such racism anywhere,” the student is indignant.

“The hall is less than a quarter full, and those who are there are busy with everything except the meeting itself and laws. Everyone walks freely around the hall, chatting with each other, some read newspapers, and generally play cards in the back rows. Fucker plays with iPads. Everywhere there is an atmosphere of bullshit and racism, even in the chair of Chairman Morozov. He generally just reads something in a sad voice and that’s all. At the right moment, on his command, everyone simply goes to their places and presses the buttons, then goes about their business again,” the trainee describes what he saw.

“This is all sad and shameful. I'm ashamed of all this. This is not parliament, but an office smoking room,” says the blogger .

Institute of Humanities and Arts

Department "Faculty of Journalism"

Practice report

4th year students

Suslova L.V.

Part 1

Prologue

After a six-month internship at Kommersant-Ural, the next logical step was to get an internship at the main editorial office of Kommersant, which is, naturally, in Moscow. Kommersant-Ural editor Nikolai Yablonsky, when asked to help, just threw up his hands: “Unfortunately, all I can do is give you a recommendation, the rest does not depend on me at all.” So I had to find a place in the political department (which is where I was trying to get) myself, which, however, turned out to be not so difficult.

Deputy editor-in-chief Gleb Cherkasov is quite accessible for communication on Facebook, which I took advantage of. After a couple of messages in the messenger, the issue with the practice was resolved, thank Zuckerberg.

First days

On July 1, I drove up to the building on Vrubel, 4, and with trembling hands I opened the door with the palm door handle, widely known in a narrow circle. The first thing you encounter at Kommersant is a strict access system with a border and inspection of personal belongings. It would seem, why such excess in the editorial office, but let's remember the tragic experience of Charlie Hebdo.

The training of any trainee begins with an introduction to the Editor program, developed specifically for Kommersant. It’s a shame that the Ural edition doesn’t have this program, it’s so exclusive. In fact, “Editor” is an RSS feed that collects news from agencies, other publications, ministries and other sources. In addition, the “Editor” himself breaks them down into the areas of “domestic politics”, “society”, “foreign policy”, “crime”, etc. Thus, people sitting in the political department do not have to sift out “their” news from, say, criminal and vice versa. “Editor” also provides access to the archive of all publications of “Kommersant” for all time. The archive is called “cherche” in slang, apparently from the French “cherchez” - “look”. The search itself in Shersha is implemented very conveniently: you can filter by application, time of publication and any word. Or in all respects at once. Very often, “chershe” is used to write a background to a text or to refer to previous materials on a given topic. The functionality of the “Editor” is not limited to this; through the program, materials are sent from correspondent to correspondent, if they write in co-authorship, from correspondent to editor, from editor to the coordination (layout) department. Bringing the text into the correct “commercial” format is also done through the “Editor”. I think these are not all of its capabilities, but I have listed those that I have used myself.

Genres

Note

During five weeks of practice at Kommersant, I wrote, alone or in co-authorship, twenty materials, and another material was written for Ogonyok, but was never published until now. In most cases, I wrote extended notes according to the conventional scheme “news + newsmaker’s commentary + expert’s commentary.” Sometimes a note might contain several comments from several experts and newsmakers, sometimes I did without them at all. Writing such news articles was interesting for only one thing - communicating with speakers at the federal level. Among my speakers were the heads of parliamentary factions, members of the political council of the Parnassus party Ilya Yashin and Leonid Volkov, State Duma deputies and experts at various levels.

I would call a separate category of notes, frequent in Kommersant, notes based on the results of opinion polls. Almost every day such a note appears on the site. At Kommersant-Ural we did not work with such news items, so we had to learn to analyze such data. For example, before I did not pay attention to the percentage of those who found it difficult to answer any question or to statistical error. The most difficult thing in such analytics was to draw conclusions; I often turned to experts so that they could clarify the numbers and give a forecast.

Investigation

However, the most favorite and interesting material in my practice was the investigation related to the presence of the Russian military in Ukraine. Special correspondents Ilya Barabanov and Ivan Safronov usually deal with “Ukrainian” topics. Together we wrote an investigation, “They Served in Their Homeland,” dedicated to Russian generals who are allegedly fighting in the Donbass. In early July, Bloomberg published a dossier on five Russian generals who, according to Ukrainian intelligence services, at that time headed the armed forces in the territories of the LPR and DPR. The Russian Ministry of Defense predictably denied this information. The Bloomberg dossier contained the names of the generals whom we tried to find.

Contacting the military, especially high-ranking ones, is not the easiest task. It was not possible to obtain contacts of the generals mentioned in the dossier through the Ministry of Defense. Even just their places of service are not always known. One of the generals, Roman Shadrin, is a deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma. Since my internship at Kommersant-Ural, I knew that he really went to Donbass, but he is a retired military man, and calls his activities in Ukraine exclusively humanitarian.

It was more difficult to find other generals. To find out their places of service, it was necessary to compare publications in the media, analyze scant information from the Ministry of Defense website, call military commandant’s offices and look for any publicly available documents related to them. The situation with two of the five generals named in the dossier has not become clearer. The place of service of one of them, Major General Zavizion (whom I mediocrely called Zalizion everywhere) is strictly classified, and the second general, Valery Solodchuk, has not even been heard of in his military district.

This material, unlike most, took more than one day to prepare and appeared on the front page. After him, I started working together with Ilya Barabanov - he gave me the latest news related to the Russian military in Ukraine, and my task was to find all the available relevant information. For several days we were looking for information about the Kadamovsky training ground, which is located in Rostov, and through which, according to rumors, Russian conscripts were sent to Donbass. The case of the trial of Maikop conscripts who refused to go to Donbass is connected with Kadamovsky. Unfortunately, Gazeta.ru had already written about this trial before us, so we tried to find other military men who found themselves in a similar situation. They didn’t find it, but I learned to look for court decisions that interested me, I understood the system of military commandant’s offices, military courts, legislation on war crimes, etc. Anyway, useful experience.

Together with Ilya Barabanov, we did another investigation for Ogonyok, but, unfortunately, it was not published. The topic of the investigation was related to Ukraine, but even more so it concerned journalism, issues of objectivity and honesty. In mid-July, RIA Novosti presented a book by several “foreign” journalists, “Honest Donbass,” prepared by a certain “Center for Current Politics.” RIA positioned the book as a collection of reports from independent foreign journalists who visited Donbass. After studying many websites in English, I came across the “nest” of these foreign journalists - a certain publication “Russia Insider”. As it turned out, the authors of this publication are former foreign citizens who have either lived in the Russian Federation for decades, or own large businesses in Russia, or are famous for their pronounced pro-Putin position. Moreover, the Center for Current Politics did not prepare this book at all; it simply stole the notes of these journalists, already published in that same “Russia Insider”. Here is my half of the text that was not published:

“On careful study, however, it turned out that the majority of foreign journalists who submitted their texts for the collection “Honest Donbass” have been living in Russia for a long time. Thus, Jon Hellevig, who during the presentation proposed to consider the economic blockade of Donbass, which Kyiv organized, as a war crime, is a native of Finland who has been doing business in Russia for many years. In 2014, Mr. Hellevig, after the Finnish opera singer Karita Mattila refused to perform with the orchestra led by Valery Gergiev in protest against the policies of Vladimir Putin, Jon Hellevig on his Facebook page called her a “Nazi ***” (woman of easy virtue) , compared her to Eva Braun and threatened with rape. Because of this, the Finnish Independence Party, of which he is a member, refused to support him in the elections to the European Parliament. Mr. Hellevig is also the co-author of the book “Putin’s Russia as It Is” and periodically publishes in the Russia Insider publication, which positions itself as “a Westerner’s view of Russia without anti-Russian sentiments.” Materials with headlines like “Yatsenyuk will sell the organs of Ukrainians” are quite common for Russia Insider. Another participant in the press conference at Rossiya Segodnya, Viktor Olevich, has nothing to do with the published collection, but is also the author of Russia Insider. The organizers, however, preferred to call him the author of the Independent Political Report, although in fact he is not published in this publication. For more than 20 years, Mr. Olevich lived in the United States, but in recent years he has been living in Russia and regularly appears on Channel One as a “political scientist, specialist in Russian-American relations.” Finally, another of their co-authors, Riley Waggaman, works as deputy editor-in-chief of the same Russia Insider, sometimes publishes articles in the Huffington Post on education topics, positions herself as an exposer of “the power and evil of the neoliberal world” and is, for example, the author of the article “Obama is a reptilian” .

Reportage

In the summer, the Communists' initiative to return the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky caused a lot of fuss. The issue of returning the controversial monument should be resolved through a referendum. In collaboration with several correspondents and trainees, we wrote a report on the collection of signatures for holding this very referendum. I chose a point where it was unlikely that any high-profile events could happen, but which I was interested in visiting myself. So I went to the regional office of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation on the outskirts of the city. The impression of the visit is in the report itself, but I was struck by the conversation with the old “guardian” of this place, who advocated for the return of the monument. Soviet ideology hammered into your head? Or do we really have a poor understanding of the historical role of Dzerzhinsky? Maybe the monument really should be returned to Lubyanka? I don't know, I don't understand.

Results

briefly
My main goal of the practice was an invitation to further cooperation, which, alas, did not happen. There is only one way to get a place on the staff: to prove that the publishing house cannot do without you. To do this, you need to have the most exclusive sources, and what sources could a student from Yekaterinburg have? Yes, I have certain connections in the State Duma (more on this below, in the second part), but all these people are newsmakers who are completely open to any media, so there can be no talk of any “exclusive”.

I wouldn’t talk about any kind of professional growth. I didn’t notice a big difference between the work of Kommersant-Ural and the main Kommersant, except for the level of speakers and the Editor - a very useful program, but not so necessary.

Part 2. Short

Internship in the State Duma of the Russian Federation

I’m embarrassed to talk about my internship in the State Duma because of my political views, so I won’t. My main functions are described in the specifications; I don’t want to add anything to this and won’t.

In the State Duma it serves as one of the necessary parts of the educational process in the preparation of senior students of all professions. At the end, students are required to submit a practice report. This is a consequence of individual research activities based on practice.

Student practice can be educational, industrial and pre-diploma.

What should be included in a practice report

Regardless of the type of practice, the structure of the report should be as follows:

1. The main text of 2-3 sections must include theory and analytics. You need to start with a description of the practice base, moving on to the analysis of information and documents, with calculations and graphics. The final section is recommendations for improving dip. enterprise project.
2. List of information sources.
3. Application.

Based on the type of practice, report writing has different properties.

The report on practice in the State Duma covers less analytical data. In this case, calculations can be included as desired. No protection required.

The report on pre-graduation practice should be treated with keen attention. In most cases, the basis of pre-diploma practice must coincide with the object of research of the thesis. Therefore, working on the report is a contribution to the diploma.

Information can be taken from the following documents: charter, reports. Where possible, useful documents should be included in an appendix to the report.

K dip. It is better to start the project on the report with the beginning of practice. At the same time, having checked what information is required for creation, it is better to start collecting it, ask questions to the manager, etc. After completing the practice, such an opportunity will no longer be found.

Maintain mutual understanding with practice supervisors. The scientific supervisor will advise on how best to create, and the production supervisor will assist in data collection. Yours also depends on the production manager.

When writing a report, it is important to adhere to the formatting rules. Requirements can be found in the manual. Violating them will result in a lower grade.

Do it on time. It is better to show the finished work for checking in advance. Then you will have time to correct mistakes. And if there are no mistakes, you can prepare for the test with restraint.

Remember! in the State Duma - this is your admission to the session, treat it with full responsibility or contact us. We offer information support and consultation.

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