Explaining service with FAS to the rising generation

In March the Federal Antimonopoly Service organized a number of career-guidance tours for students and schoolchildren who think of becoming lawyers and economists.

FAS was visited by students from the economic faculties of RUDN University, Plekhanov Russian University Economics, pupils of the Open Law School at High School of Economics – National Research University, and children from multi-child Moscow families  who dream of being lawyers.

Deputy Head of FAS Legal Department, Alexei Kryukov, talked to the visitors about the legal profession, its role in antimonopoly regulation and the personal qualities necessary to advance such a career. It did not concern only a list of knowledge and skills important to work in the antimonopoly body; teenagers got plenty of valuable recommendations and advice.

Representatives of specialized FAS Departments described the basic areas of FAS work: Deputy Head of Unfair Competition Protection Unit, Department for Control over Advertising and Unfair Competition, Angelina Bogatyryova; Deputy Head of FAS Anti-Cartel Department, Dmitry Artyushenko; and Unit Head, Department for Regional Tariff Regulation, Andrey Gromov. The main objective of the speakers was to show the importance of antimonopoly regulation on the goods and financial markets, give examples of FAS law-making efforts, explain the core of building up a new, consumer-oriented tariff policy and the significance of fair competition practice.

Staff of the Public Service Department invited students for internship with FAS and its regional bodies and explained what would be necessary for it. Information about the possibility to have internship with the Antimonopoly Service evoked a warm response among students, and a lot of them decided to take advantage of it in the future to gain invaluable experience and skills.