How it's done: Work at the UN (5 photos). How much does a UN employee receive per month - salaries in international organizations Professional and career development

International organizations are called upon to establish trade and political relations between countries. They solve economic problems on a global scale.

Work for the good of the world

In each country, the UN has several agencies that oversee a specific area of ​​activity:

• human rights;
• protection of children's rights;
• food supplies;
• public health;
• labor safety, etc.

The average salary of a UN employee in Russia is $47,000 per year. In other countries, specialists receive from $4000 to $8000 per month. If the country in which the specialist works does not allow him to bring his family, then every 8 weeks he is given leave for 7 days and pay their way home.

There is also a legal vacation for 30 days a year.

Getting a job in an agency located in our country is very difficult. You need to know at a high level several foreign languages, to have experience in similar work.

The applicant has to pass difficult exams in several stages.

Salary of specialists

The salaries of UN staff are established by the State Assembly and are divided into 5 categories:

• P1 - $70535 - 85115;
• Р2 - $86910 - 95980;
• P3 - $99545 ​​- 110715;
• Р4 - $115985 - 130425;
• Р5 - $135691 - 145959;
• D1 - $150610 - 165603;
• D2 - $170113 - 190975.

The heads of commissions and chairmen of committees receive the highest salaries. Their salary reaches $200k net.

UN representatives in hot points of the planet earn from $300 thousand, and their deputies $100,000 per year. Captain " blue berets»receives a monthly salary of $5000 . The salary of his colleague in Iraq reaches $10000 .

A translator with experience in an international organization makes a profit $60000 in year. A freelance specialist who has signed a contract for the translation of just one article earns from $0.22 per word.

Sometimes they are invited to translate a large amount of documentation after the conference.

In this case, pay for the change $350 .

An International Labor Organization trainee receives a salary of 1860 francs per month. Salary of the Senior Secretary in the Office of the Director General of OPEC - 3.3 thousand euros, is not subject to taxes.

For comparison, they indicate the salary of a nurse in New York, which reaches $40350/year. HR manager earns up to $52530/year.

Benefits for officials

High-ranking professionals are provided with a whole package of benefits, which includes:

• free education of children in the most prestigious school;
• two paid holidays per year;
• international flights for foreigners - at the expense of the employer;
• compensation for unused vacation;
• on the East River preferential prices for electronics, cars and delicacies are set for them;
• the retirement age has been shortened by 3 years to 62 years.

European Commission

Assistant translators are in demand. They are offered a contract for 21 months with a salary of 1500 euro. The candidate must be proficient in all methods of translation, as well as competent speech and writing in 3 languages ​​at least.

The main requirement is perfect knowledge of English and Russian languages.

Employees earn:

1. The President of the European Commission receives a total bill of 31,272 euros per month. Naked rate - 26166 euros.
2. The profit of vice presidents is from 27954.
3. The income of members of the European Commission is 8215/month.

Job offers for programmers 5 years experience work for cooperation with clients and participation in business projects. Knowledge of English at a high level is required, age - up to 65 years.

The President of the European Council receives a salary from 298495 euro in year.

World Health Organization

The job seeker in this organization must have a higher medical education and a Ph.D. He must have a high level of knowledge, analytical skills and experience at the international level.

In addition to English, you also need to know Chinese, Arabic, French or Spanish.

They accept workers who are ready at any moment to go to the ends of the world to participate in the movement " Doctors Without Borders».

Red Cross

It requires a large number of specialists working in their country. They take even without a medical education, they will teach everything on the spot.

The main thing is the desire to help people who find themselves in a difficult situation, the fault of which was:

• natural disasters;
• epidemics;
• war.

They do not earn anything on this, they act on a volunteer basis. To subsist, they work part-time elsewhere.

Young doctors, engineers and other professionals are paid from 2500 euro during internships in foreign countries.

The UN and the Red Cross are involved in the delivery of humanitarian aid to African countries.

Helicopter crew members, most often from CIS countries, receive:

• commander — from $10,000 per month;
• co-pilot — $9000;
• flight engineer - $7000.

Professional and career growth

The UN accepts by competition.

You need a master's degree in finance, law, translators, managers and programmers.

The career starts as a trainee who, in most cases, is not paid at all. So it can last from 6 months up to a year. During this time, the specialist gets good work experience in an international organization, but this is not a guarantee that he will be hired.

Pattern: I always have enough to write a plaintive or angry post, but rarely to please and rejoice. Today is no exception. I decided to tell you something about the internship at the UN, or rather about how and why they don’t get there.

It all started about a year ago, when I was still a student at a European university and dreamed of getting an internship at a very specific UN unit in Vienna. At some point, I met a couple of people who had already interned at this organization, in other departments in other cities, and according to their feedback, the internship should have been just a breakthrough in my career. Already, if not further employment, then at least very useful connections and acquaintances. I started small by applying for an internship. And then I realized that the chances are zero, because, firstly, by the time of the internship I will not be a student (and this is a mandatory condition), and secondly, interns at the UN are not paid money and are not reimbursed for expenses in connection with moving to place of internship and accommodation. But again, I applied. And almost immediately she stopped waiting, switched to her studies.
And then one day, after checking the mailbox, I found a letter from the UN (after a good 3 months, although it should have been in 1) with an invitation to work experience.

Wow, I thought. Amazing coincidence or fate? In any case, it was necessary to start in two months, the time has come.
Having carefully read the conditions, I realized that they were inviting me to another department, completely unrelated to my specialization. Knowing how many people want to get there (in this department that chose me), I was very surprised. And I thought, because I had to spend my money and 3 months of my life on an internship. Was the game worth the candle?

Another snag, the main one, was money. I really wanted to get money for this business (and in the end I couldn’t), so conceivable and unthinkable options were already turning in my head how to do it.

But the main thing that slowed me down was the lack of support from the inviting party - even informational, even oblique accommodation in Vienna, where I had never been. Of course, I made an attempt and contacted the organizers of my internship at the UN on this matter. There was not even an answer. Well, I thought. Any result is also a result. Either housing will turn up for me and there will be money, or it was not mine.

I began to work in all directions, without success. The housing was too expensive or very dubious to try to rent it without money and send a deposit to nowhere. The city is also expensive - and, not finding money for living, I could not afford the trip.

Later, in a calm state, I analyzed everything after the fact, talked with a number of other individuals who either trained or worked at the UN, and here are the conclusions I came to.

1) Only a wealthy student can afford an internship at the UN. Wealthy is if he is from the middle class in a developed country, or from a caste in a developing country. Otherwise, it's unbelievable. There are always exceptions, but in general they are. According to one guy from Hungary, who did an internship in the New York office, there were mostly Australians with him, citizens of Western European countries, Canada. There was a small percentage of people from other countries, but during that time he did not meet a single trainee from, for example, Africa. The guys I know, who trained in Geneva, are all from wealthy families. The Hungarian I mentioned told me that he was unable to pay for his stay in NY for 6 months (for which he was invited), and stayed there only 2.

2) The second conclusion follows from the first conclusion, that there is indirect discrimination based on nationality. It cannot be proven because there are no visible reasons for such discrimination. But in life it turns out that in the world's largest international organization, mostly wealthy people from developed countries are trained. That's what natural selection is.

3) The UN uses the labor of professionals for free (people not just with higher education, but often with master's degrees and the like, with work experience at the international level), while not even helping their intern with information in finding housing, internship loans, visa support . It's just such a magical organization where everyone wants, so they will come anyway and without the help of the inviting party.

4) Little things neglecting the trainees. For example, I was taken to a department that was completely inappropriate for my specialization. I am sure that there were hundreds of applicants for my place, who understood the subject better than me (considering that I didn’t understand a damn thing about it). But they took me, most likely, as a native speaker, which they lacked at that time. This is the only logical explanation. Those. left behind people who really want to work in a field that I don’t give a shit about, just because a free girl translator was needed.

And these glorious stories about the fact that interns are given a guest badge, and every day he enters the UN building through the tourist entrance with a full inspection of clothes, etc. When employees go through the employee entrance.

5) After a miracle internship, you will not be employed at the UN for at least the next 6 months. Such a rule. The reasons why it was established are understandable. However, what should people who have already worked and successfully do? Sit at home and wait. Eat how you want, earn money in another way. Someday we will contact you.

Yes, many people dream of working at the UN. Should I complain, because I was invited. Should I be indignant, because I had the opportunity, albeit a small one, to find money for this business. But why is this place so special? It is losing credibility on many fronts. It does not give equal access to itself to all the peoples of the world, but only to the chosen ones (for the most part, well-living peoples). Such a feeder for fat cats.

I would still like to see the UN from the inside, to work in some organization associated with my direction. To confirm or disprove yourself. But I really want that for such an organization, where many people intuitively aspire (just like in Gazprom in modern Russia), motivated and educated people would not be meat and mass.

Last academic year, MSLU created a pilot group of the strongest 5th year students of the Faculty of Translation, who, under the guidance of the head of the English Department I.M. Shokina took part in the preparation program for the UN exams in simultaneous translation. Oleg Lovkov, a graduate of the MSLU Faculty of Translation, spoke about his internship at the United Nations, the role of the Russian language as the official language of the UN, and employment prospects for graduates of our university.

- Oleg, tell us, what are the requirements for candidates who want to get an internship at the UN?

Firstly, knowledge of at least two foreign languages ​​that are official languages ​​of the United Nations. I speak English and French. Secondly, openness and communication skills are important selection criteria.

What department did you train in?

I did an internship in the Verbatim Recording Service. At all meetings, transcripts are kept, they are transferred to the English service and translated into English, and then sent to other languages. My responsibilities included translating wall reports from English into Russian.

- In your service men or women predominated?

The UN is trying to maintain a gender balance in all services, as this organization gives equal rights to both women and men.

- Did you have to acquire additional knowledge and skills that you did not receive at the university?

During the internship, I got the specifics of translating sten reports. I'm not sure what specifically teaches this somewhere specifically. The speeches of the speakers are quite complex both in terminology and in the construction of sentences. Sentences can be very long, but they cannot be broken up: when translating, the same structure must be maintained. Sometimes I struggled for thirty minutes over one sentence, but there is a lot of text, and I need to have time to translate everything. In addition, it is necessary to protect the honor of the university! I felt this responsibility. The first text I translated was literally full of corrections. Then we analyzed it with the head of the Russian section, after which, already taking into account previous mistakes, I translated the rest of the texts much better. But the first pancake is lumpy, I think everyone is like that. It must be taken into account that when translating excerpts from the Charter or the UN Resolution, one cannot change a word: everything is very strict. The rest of the knowledge and skills acquired at our university was enough for me.

- Describe the everyday life of an intern.

The working day lasts eight hours with a break for lunch. The schedule is flexible: you can come at nine o'clock, and at eleven, the main thing is to fulfill the norm. At first, I was advised to pay attention to quality, not quantity. In addition, interns do not have a strict norm, but it is desirable to do as much as possible, work quickly and efficiently, as this is a real chance to prove themselves. Employees have a norm of five texts in two days. By the end of the internship, I reached this standard.

All interns have a curator who notified us by e-mail about activities and events. In the first few weeks, we were shown how different services work. We went to meetings of the General Assembly of the Security Council, visited the simultaneous translation service, the UN library, watched how it works. The library has its own terminological base, which has been compiled for several years. Now everything is being digitized and entered into the UN database. And in the evenings, jazz evenings were arranged: ordinary employees gathered a musical group and invited interns to perform as well.

Of course, there were weekends and free time after work. I visited America for the first time, for me it was a culture shock. There is definitely something to see in New York. The city is very unusual, life in it boils day and night. I think it's my atmosphere.

One of the main goals of the United Nations is the development of friendly relations between countries and peoples...

The UN has a very friendly staff. Whoever I meet, everyone is ready to help and answer questions. In fact, this is a clear example of intercultural communication, which is taught at MSLU. I saw different nations in the UN. There were also indigenous peoples who walked in loincloths. Employees, of course, are advised to follow the dress code. But a strict dress code is followed in the building of the UN Secretariat and in the General Assembly. And where the translation service is located, there are no hard and fast rules.

A translator is a specialist not only in the field of linguistics, but also a connoisseur of different cultures, a person who is well versed in the political and economic spheres. In a word, this is an erudite person ...

Yes, definitely. The specifics of working at the UN implies knowledge of the geopolitical situation in the world, professional orientation in all important topics. If you need to clarify the features of a country, for example, Cuba, then you should go up to the Spanish section and get an answer to your question from the Cubans working there. Any UN staff member can be contacted for assistance. I never felt that I was inferior in rank: I was treated as an equal member of the team.

- How would you characterize the profession of an interpreter? Who is the translator?

A translator is a person who is able to masterfully connect two cultures so that the fact of translation is invisible.

If we talk about Russian, which is the official language of the UN, what does this status of mother tongue mean for our country and for you personally?

The Russian language is in great demand and is on an equal footing with other official UN languages. There is a lot of work in Russian because the meetings are held mainly in English, French and Spanish, and everything must be translated. But this is even good, since sitting back is boring.

- Have you ever felt a specific attitude towards Russia or towards Russians?

No, people don't judge Russia because they're on the news. Everyone has already understood that you need to get to know a person personally and have your own opinion about everything. There was no prejudice.

Yes, being where all world events are unfolding, attending meetings and translating serious texts of the Security Council, of course, you feel your involvement. Working at the UN and seeing with my own eyes what I used to see only on TV is very cool.

- This is a big step for a future career. What range of opportunities opens up after an internship at the UN?

I would like to try my hand at simultaneous translation. Perhaps I will teach at our university. But now I was offered to do another internship at UN television. They have excellent large studios, but there are no Russian specialists yet. I have already completed and sent the form. If everything works out, then this year I will once again go for an internship at the UN.

- What would you wish our students and graduates? How to achieve the same results that you have achieved?

In the UN, first of all, a good knowledge of the native language is valued. You must be fluent in your language, be able to speak beautifully, read books, and, of course, learn foreign languages. Everything that our university gives must be absorbed, because in the end everything will come in handy at the most unexpected moment. During the two months of the internship, I took advantage of many of the knowledge that MSLU gave me.

Interview prepared by Natalia Bukina

A UN employee anonymously spoke about professional pride, friendship between peoples and monetary compensation in case of death.

For many, the UN is such a Kafkaesque castle. Alluring, mysterious and inaccessible. Everyone wants to get there, and someone seems to get there, but no one knows exactly how to do it. Everyone heard about the very time-consuming application process, passing some kind of interviews and exams, about the long wait for an answer - several months or even years.

To some extent, this is all true. Although there are situations when the applicant gets a job quite quickly and without superhuman effort. If we get lucky. Whether you are accepted or not depends on many factors. Here, both your work experience and, for example, the status of your state can play a role. For example, if your country is "under-represented" in the UN, the chance of getting a job there increases dramatically.

About the risks associated with working at the UN

The mission of the UN is to unite peoples, help the suffering and fight for world peace.

Of course, getting ready for work every morning, UN employees do not mutter under their breath: "Here, I'm going to save the world again." But in general, this feeling depends on the specific duties. I think if a person with a humanitarian convoy goes to the besieged Syrian city of Homs and distributes food and clothing to those in need, he feels that he is doing something very important. Well, or, for example, an employee of the OPCW (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons), involved in the removal of chemical weapons from Syria, probably feels that he is making the world a better place. Not to mention those who sit at Security Council meetings and decide "the fate of the world."

Willingness to work in places remote and not the most comfortable at the UN is always welcome. Exotic lovers and altruists who want to help starving children in Africa, as it turns out, are not so few. But not everyone is clear about the realities of everyday life and work in, say, the Central African Republic, South Sudan or other hotspots.

Working in UN missions in troubled countries and in war zones can be extremely dangerous. UN employees are intimidated, fired upon, kidnapped, killed. However, everyone knows about it from the news bulletins.

By the way, in the event of the death of an employee in the line of duty, his family and friends are paid generous monetary compensation.

About the UN Headquarters in New York

I personally work at the UN Headquarters in New York, in the General Secretariat. Everyone, of course, remembers the emerald skyscraper with the flags of all member countries of the organization lined up along it. It is beautiful, comfortable and absolutely safe here.

All members of the secretariat are proud of their work, although they try not to show it, and in conversations over lunch in the canteen they like to discuss the bureaucracy and inefficiency of the organization that reigns in the UN. In fact, everyone here feels like a part of some elite club. The bus that goes down 42nd Street in Manhattan (its last stop is called "United Nations") every morning becomes a platform for a conceited flash mob. At the entrance to the UN, many passengers begin to remove UN passes from their bags and pockets and at the same time furtively look around: who else takes out the same blue ID? And the one who gets it last does it with special relish: yes, yes, don’t think, I’m also “your”.

On the other hand, this is done primarily for convenience, so as not to dig into the bag later at the entrance to the territory of a huge complex under strong winds from the East River (the UN building stands right by the river).

About salary, schedule and working conditions

One of the reasons why many seek to work at the UN is, of course, high salaries (8-10 thousand dollars a month on average) and social guarantees. Good health insurance, pensions, flexible taxation (the UN pays most of the taxes for its employees), allowances that compensate for the cost of living in the city where you work, housing subsidies (if you have to move to another region for work). And that's not all that the world's most powerful non-profit organization will offer you.

If you are accepted to the UN for a permanent job, then this is, in fact, a guarantee of employment for life. As some people joke, people leave the UN only feet first.

About UN Radio

I work for UN Radio (the radio service is part of the Department of Public Information of the UN Secretariat). Many, when they hear this phrase, are surprised: does the UN have a radio? In fact, it has existed since 1946. By the way, it is the founding day of UN radio that is considered World Radio Day - February 13th. We mainly talk about the activities of various structures and bodies of the UN (there are countless of them: the Security Council, the General Assembly, UNESCO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the Red Cross, the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, UN peacekeeping missions in countries affected by conflicts). Reports, interviews, daily UN radio news programs can be found (including in text form) on the official website. As a rule, all these materials are regularly used by our partners. In the case of the Russian-language service, this is, for example, "Echo of Moscow" in some CIS countries. UN radio broadcasts in eight languages ​​- English, French, Russian, Swahili, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Arabic. All employees are located on the same floor, and the most real internationalism and friendship of peoples reign here.

Once, walking along the corridor, I saw through the door in one of the offices of the UN Radio Arab Service a woman in very beautiful clothes - dark blue, embroidered with silver threads. She prayed to Allah. I delicately passed by, although her bright attire attracted me very much. The next time, passing by the same office, I expected to see her again. But a completely different lady was sitting there - in boring office trousers and a jacket, with her hair loose. I involuntarily caught myself thinking: where did that Muslim woman in beautiful religious clothes go? Of course, it was the same woman, she just changed clothes for prayer.

In general, there are not so many people in national costumes walking around the corridors of the UN headquarters. Of course, you can occasionally meet Sikhs in turbans or women in hijabs. But most of the employees dress in quite a standard office style.

The situation changes when some kind of conference is held at the headquarters, say, dedicated to African women. Then permanent employees are guaranteed a multi-day exotic show. Everything is filled with the rustling of lush multi-colored dresses and headdresses a meter high. Sometimes it is even difficult to walk down the corridor. And when they leave at the end of the conference, it becomes empty and gray.

The biggest charm of working on UN radio is this: firstly, the authority of the organization allows you to get almost any interview, and secondly, you don’t have to go far. The building is literally teeming with politicians, celebrities and Nobel Prize winners from all over the world.

About the Northern Salon of Delegates

Of all the endless halls and rooms of the UN Headquarters, the most attractive is the Northern Delegates' Lounge, or, as it is also called, the Delegates Lounge. Here you can have an excellent lunch or dinner while admiring the view of the East River - however, through the Knots and Beads curtain, consisting of 30,000 porcelain balls. This is the decision of the Dutch designer Hella Jongerius, who took part in the large-scale restoration of the bar.

The result, by the way, caused irritation in many. They turned, they say, luxurious and mysterious, shrouded in twilight in the style of James Bond films, the nightclub of diplomats into an environmentally friendly school cafeteria.

The Delegates' Lounge is almost always full. The most interesting things happen here and happened, of course, in the evenings. Many in the UN generally believe that all major decisions are made here, and not at all at meetings of the General Assembly or the Security Council. Tipsy (and sometimes frankly drunk) and relaxed diplomats supposedly quickly find a common language and in a matter of minutes agree on issues that had previously been fruitlessly discussed for hours in a bureaucratic setting.

Old-timers of the UN say that once the atmosphere in the Delegates' Lounge was even more relaxed. During the Cold War, diplomats were allegedly even visited by girls of easy virtue.

I don’t know how much one can believe everything that is said about the Northern Salon, but mission personnel clearly perceive it as their personal territory, where they can discard etiquette, forget about protocol and loosen the knot on a tie. One day, my colleague and I showed up there with a camera and tried to take pictures of the legendary Lounge. A couple of minutes later, a representative of the Chilean mission was running towards us across the entire hall, waving his arms. He demanded that we not "point the camera at him" even though we weren't filming him at all. The man very emotionally, in a raised voice, said that it was impossible to shoot here, and threatened that he would call the guards.

Vladislav Satisfied, a former intern at the Department of Political Affairs for Central and Central Asia at the United Nations Office in New York, told how one can complete an internship without knowing the language, meet the minister during lunch, and why it is impossible to get a job at the UN.

Why the UN?

There was no desire to get specifically to the UN, there was an interest just to go on an internship abroad. At that time, it was a huge adventure, since I never studied English in depth and, accordingly, knew the language very poorly (approx. Vlad's profile language is German). When I arrived in the US, I had several pages of text written by my girlfriend with me:
what I had to say at customs to get me into the country.

What was the procedure for applying for an internship?

It was necessary to fill out a questionnaire, write a motivation letter and provide confirmation from the university department that we have English in the teaching load. I filled out the questionnaire somewhere in September and already before the new year I received a confirmation letter that I was accepted for an internship, a list of necessary documents for applying for a visa was also attached to the letter.

How did you manage to overcome the language barrier?

I was lucky, the head of the department, like my curator Brian, knew Russian. I can’t imagine how I would have done my internship if there weren’t people there who don’t understand Russian or are unable to say something in it. Otherwise, all my communication with them would be reduced to communication by email.

What were your responsibilities?

My job was pretty simple. I needed to track the events that took place in Central and Central Asia via the Internet. For this work, they were specifically looking for an intern from Russia, since in Central and Central Asia you can find more information in Russian than in English.

Describe the everyday life of a UN intern.

My working day began formally at 9 am, but here is the story: everyone was usually late for 20-30 minutes, that is, if you come at 9:30, then no one tells you anything, if you come at 10 am, they can make you remark, but later to come is already “not comme il faut”. I arrived at 9:30, in fact, like most of the department's employees. I had a general job, monitoring sites, collecting information on various policies, on the situation with water in a given region, that is, local questions on a specific place: what is happening in this region, who controls what, what moods, etc. Some collection of information. In addition, there were some questions related to private assignments. For example, one day an online meeting was organized between representatives of the central, Geneva and Kyrgyz offices, I had to make a report of this meeting. This was one of the most difficult tasks for me, because when 5-6 people speak a lot and very quickly, it is difficult to understand and take notes at the same time. I asked the curator if I could use a voice recorder and they told me that it was not possible, as this was classified information. However, I understood that without a voice recorder I would fail the task, so I hid the voice recorder in my shirt pocket and already at home deciphered the recording, which I deleted immediately after compiling the report and so far I have not told anyone what we were talking about then.
I was not particularly loaded for two reasons. The first is my low level of language, and the second is the high level of secrecy. The information that I collected is not secret, however, a further report to the management with certain conclusions based on the information I collected was marked “secret”.
Once a week, on Thursdays, we had a "week meeting" analogous to the Russian "letuchki". We talked about what the department is doing, what data is needed, what was done in a week. Thursday is a very convenient day, because if something needs to be completed this week, then there is still Friday.

What interesting things happened during off-duty hours?

At lunchtime, you can go to the "brown rally". The idea of ​​a “brown rally” is simple: in one of the conference halls of the UN building, employees gather for lunch, and at the same time they listen to speakers, ask questions, discuss, i.e. combine the pleasant with the useful. In fact, this is another “working meeting”, only you can also eat at it. Moreover, high-level people speak at these meetings, for example, once I listened to a speech by a deputy minister, and another time by an ambassador. What was strange to me was how a person can eat their own burger and ask the minister about the report at the same time. I can hardly imagine how I would eat during the speech of the dean at my faculty, or how the chairman of the committee of the city government at a meeting in Smolny would tell something to chewing people.

Were there any special events for interns?

I was the only trainee in my department. As a rule, there was one trainee in each department, but if the department is large, then two trainees worked. During my internship, 300 interns worked at the UN Headquarters in New York. We were given orientation lectures in the first days, where we were told about safety and other aspects of the work of interns.
Interns were given special cards to enter the UN building. The same cards provided the right to free admission to various cultural institutions, such as museums.

How realistic is it to get a job at the UN after an internship?

There is practically no chance. In order to officially get a job at the UN, you must work "in the fields." These are UN missions in developing countries, lasting 2-3 years, which are also very difficult to get into without practical skills. After that, you get in line for a vacant position. In addition, the number of languages ​​​​that you know is of great importance - the more, the better. If you are nevertheless hired, then first you go through a long trial period, after the trial period they conclude a contract with you for one, then for two years, and so on. To reach the rank of department head, you must have worked in the organization for at least 15 years, excluding work in the fields.
The second option is when you have worked somewhere else, you are a valuable specialist and you are invited to the UN. So, some former diplomats of the post-Soviet space ended up working in this organization.
Third option. I still think there are other workarounds. We had one of the orientation lectures, led by a young man of 24 years old. He held a position that, due to age and formal requirements, he could not hold, but nevertheless, he worked at the UN.

Did the internship help with finding a job in Russia?

Employers are usually interested in practical work experience. I was almost never asked about an internship during employment. In general, an internship abroad usually tells the employer that the applicant speaks a foreign language at a level sufficient for communication. Although in my case, at that moment, this statement was controversial.