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Siberia: Russian student climbs a birch in the forest to study "online"

2020-11-28T21:05:58.089Z


SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - With the distance classes due to the pandemic and the poor internet connection available in his village, Alexeï had no choice but to climb a tree 10 meters high in freezing temperatures in order to be able to download his lessons.


By María R. Sahuquillo (El País), correspondent from Moscow

Alexeï Dudoladov climbs a 10-meter-high birch to continue his lessons.

Since schools in the Siberian region of Omsk closed due to the coronavirus pandemic and switched to online learning, the 21-year-old naval mechanical engineering student says it's the best way he can he found to download the content of his lessons and, when possible, to follow the lessons for a few minutes on Zoom.

To read also: "I'm afraid of dropping out": worried or exasperated, the students suffer from their return to school

In her village of 50 inhabitants, Stankevichi, the internet connection is very bad, it barely reaches 2G and runs in spurts.

"

The best place, without a doubt, is on top of the birch,

" Dudoladov said over the phone.

Although getting closer to the antenna would probably have had the same effect as climbing up the tree, in this way he succeeded in drawing attention to himself and denouncing the poor quality of the networks by his action.

This is his chain

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Source: lefigaro

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