Albert Belkov

War is war

My main experience is surviving a lethal poisoning attempt in vesh. Well, trying to kill your main shashlyki-maker to cook him instead. The most dumb move ever. Fucking brainless murdering cannibals.

Never go to "isolators" if you are ill, go home instead.

*** is a pedophile and a cheater. As well as all russian summer school organizers (at least where I was). I am sick of all russian bullshit. Beware.

Old stuff (where I was delusional):

Considering the current constitution of the russian education system I believe it must be acknowledged that I have never received and I have never conducted any private remunerated classes to anyone in my entire life. Moreover, I have no inclination to alter that further.

Since it is a russian site, I would like additionally to pose a remark, that I am no longer communicating and interacting with any russian nationals.

For those, who might be using this information as a benchmark, where to study or where to go working (this is based on observation, not on engaging in the experiment, hope it helps):

• Heavy drinking (more than 2 beers per day) for 2+ weeks might cause irreversible changes in the organism, including a trombosis (video (in German, 18+)). Especially if mixed with hookah consumption. Please, be safe, and if you consider this a threat, do not attend LESH or VESH as a teacher.
• In some of the places it is traditional not to be paid even if the directors promised. Please, ask someone in advance, what is customary in the particular event, otherwise consider this a volunteering experience. In some cases you would not receive a payment in full. In some cases you would not receive an unspecified payment in full (I mean, do not think, that there is some "payment", which is stable). Vysshaya proba is fine, but seems like they do not check exercises properly anymore.
• In some of the faculties teachers do not tolerate huge chunks of students leaving for a work in the external school (especially if they accept only vseros-winners). So, choose schools with diversified composition of teachers or hedged against this risk.
• If you are a teacher, please, do not engage in drinking with school children. This is a school, not a party. And, especially, selling your services, whatever they may be. This is why nobody gets paid, because school deteriorates to a trading platform and a broker rather than an education institution.
• Here it is also a comment about the ***, creator of the site (not Grigory). I leave this option empty, because everyone knows.
• If you are a freshmen/1st year bachelor, school does not certify you to giving private classes. And even though I do not tolerate it, but you can find students by network within the faculty/job posting. Organize a free 1-time event for networking. Do not think, that the volunteering is an investment, in russia even a paid work can mean a slavery. Just consider yourself alone and count only on yourself. Limit all the communications to a bare minimum.

Listed here is the experience pertaining to my fruitless efforts in providing a better quality school education. It is present exclusively for the sake of completeness of memories.

Important notice:

Recommended readings (in russian language, can be accessed with a Google Translate Extension):

My interview for ICEF (the faculty of HSE, where I have studied in BSc): https://icef.hse.ru/news/263123815.html
My winning nomination at the "Silver Nestling" Awards: https://www.hse.ru/gold/cm/silver/2016/belkov

Competitions, in organization of which I have taken part:

As a brilliant coach:

• Adviser at the review session at the Final Stage of All-Russian Olympiad of School Students in Economics for the participants from the 57th school, in particular of the top-1 scorer, who became one after this session (03/2021)
• Team leader of the russian national team-2 at the I International Economics Olympiad, and as a member of the International Board supported the idea and voted for the IEO to be English-speaking (09/2018)

As a wise member of jury (grading, task creation):

• Municipal Stage at All-Russian Olympiad of School Students in Economics (2019)
• Moscow Economic Olympiad for School Children (2019)
• Vysshaya Proba/HSE Economics Olympiad for School Children (2018, 2019)
• IES Evening School Olympiad (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)

As a responsible volunteer:

• Final Stage at All-Russian Olympiad of School Students in Economics (2018)
• Vysshaya Proba/HSE Economics Olympiad for School Children (2017)

Full list of economics education organizations and events for school children, where I have taught*:

*to avoid conflict of interests, I quitted being member of a jury in children fate-decisive competitions
** "-" means that the participation was continuous without breaks; if dates are listed, then it was a sporadic participation
*** it is also worth mentioning, that 2 of my students at this school eventually became golden medalists at the III International Economics Olympiad