Yevteyeva+Anna+case+study

==//In this page I place the interview with the 43 year old economist from Russian company Rostelekom (subsidiary of Tomsk region situated in Tomsk). We discussed some aspects of globalization and its influence on our economy, consumption, migration and labor market.//==



**// 1. //** **// Hello, Have your heard of globalization? How do you understand it? //**
**Economist from Rostelekom**: yes, globalization- is the process of integration of the country into global economy

**Economist from Rostelekom**: yes, I feel. Nowadays there is a huge risk that human labor can be automatized. This happen because of globalization that promotes the development of new robots and industrial automation technologies.
 * // 2. //** **// What globalization impact ( if any) do you feel at your working place? //**

 //**3.**// **// Which changes do you observe in the national /regional economy currently? Why is that? //** **Economist from Rostelekom**: Interesting question, difficult to answer, frankly speaking our economy currently changes a lot. First of all we can see a lot of foreign production in the supermarkets and second, our own production decreases considerably

 **4.** **// Do you see any difference in the present national /local labor market and that one 10 years ago? What are the main trends in it? Why //**** ? ** **Economist from Rostelekom:** Yes, I see the big difference. For example in our city we can observe a lot of foreign franchisee: Subway, McDonalds, KFC, Mango, Promod, Espirit, especially in food and textile industry. 10 years ago we could hardly ever find foreign brand, we consumed our national food products: vegetables, meat, fish. Now we have to buy Chinese fish, meat and so on. I consider this happens because of globalization.

**Economist from Rostelekom:** Yes there are. Especially clever specialists. In our company some people came from Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belorussia, Georgia, Armenia. There is no discrimination in our company, but you need to have Russian citizenship if you want to work in Rostelekom.
 * // 5. //** **// Are there any migrants working in your company? Why "yes or no"? //**

**Economist from Rostelekom**: In our company of course not, I don’t feel any discrimination. But in Tomsk and in Russia I know it is very difficult to find job even with high education, because competition in local labor market is very high. This happens because of inflow of migrants from China, Kazakhstan: clever specialists from these countries are ready to work and more flexible to working conditions and salary, while Russians want from employer better working conditions than those that migrants demand.
 * // 6. //** **// Do you feel there is discrimination in the labor market / your company in terms of race, nationality, gender or age? //**

 //**7.**// **// How much insecure do you feel now both at your working place and your personal life? //** **Economist from Rostelekom**: Interesting question, I feel myself rather sure at my working place and also in personal life. I have good working conditions, rather stable salary, and enough time to spend with my family.

// 8. // **// Do you feel strong connection with Russian culture //**// ? // **Economist from Rostelekom :** No I don’t feel so. May be this happens because of foreign influence on our life: we see American films, we wear Chinese clothes we use Chinese gadgets, we even travel abroad instead of visiting Russian historical beautiful places. We also eat special exotic and foreign dishes such as: sushi, pizza, lazanjia.

**// 9. //** **// Do you feel there is too strong influence of foreign culture on our way of living and thinking? //** **Economist in Rostelekom:** Yes I absolutely agree with this statement. And it isn’t our fault, it is a normal natural process in terms of globalization and integration our country in global economy.

**Economist from Rostelekom** : I positively think of foreign products consumption. Personally I every day buy a lot of foreign products. this doesn’t depend on my wish to buy only foreign goods. No. I just buy things that I like and prefer consume products of high quality. And our Russian goods are not so competitive as foreign ones.
 * // 10. //** **// What do you think of foreign products consumption? Do you personally prefer imported or domestic ones? //**

**Economist from Rostelekom**: I support further Russian economy integration into global market, it is good for us consumers. Now there is a worldwide market for companies and consumers to access products from different countries. There is cultural intermingling. Each country is learning more about other cultures. Since we share financial interests, corporations and governments are trying to sort out ecological problems for each other.
 * // 11. //** **// Would you rather support or oppose further Russian economy integration into global market? Is this happening the right way you see it? //**


 * Thank you for your attention very much **

// To sum up this interview we can see that globalization influenced on every sphere of our life. // // Covering a wide range of distinct political, economic, and cultural trends, the term “globalization” has quickly become one of the most fashionable buzzwords of contemporary political and academic debate. // // Globalization impacts on working place, cultural identity, migration processes. // // Nowadays globalisation is an inevitable process which has at the same time positive and negative sides for population. Accordind to people's opinions t //// here is a worldwide market for the companies and for the customers, there is a better access to products from different countries. //// Due to the presence of a worldwide market, there is an increase in the production sector and there are lots of options for investments for different companies. //// Socially we have become more open and tolerant towards each other and those who live in the other parts of the world appear more approachable than before. // // Migration will become even more important because pf the war on talent, the need to attract people at all skill ranges. In Russia, especially in Tomsk migrants from CIS countries present a good strong competition on the local labour market. //