I'm not sure what differentiation you're making between teachers and tutors. All of the organizations here that will give you a work visa require some sort of teaching qualification (TEFL cert, CELTA) and the TEFL industry in general uses "teacher", whether it's private teacher, private school teacher (BKC), public school, or incompany (corporate/business English) teacher.
And there's no way any of us will ever be paid 2m a year. The starting pay for a full-time beginner teacher at a starter school like BKC is about 35k rubles a month (starter schools usually provide housing though so it partially makes up for it). Though, you can definitely make 1-2m/year mixing classroom/incompany work with private lessons, or teaching only private lessons (but then you wouldn't get the work visa and more than half of that would be off the books income anyway).
I'm not saying you're wrong or that setting up for the long term isn't prudent, but there are hundreds if not thousands of native speaker English teachers in Moscow and forcing them to jump through this hoop would collapse the industry and fuck Russians up in the long term (much less will become functional in English). Then again like you said, it's Russia. Anything could happen.
And there's no way any of us will ever be paid 2m a year. The starting pay for a full-time beginner teacher at a starter school like BKC is about 35k rubles a month (starter schools usually provide housing though so it partially makes up for it). Though, you can definitely make 1-2m/year mixing classroom/incompany work with private lessons, or teaching only private lessons (but then you wouldn't get the work visa and more than half of that would be off the books income anyway).
I'm not saying you're wrong or that setting up for the long term isn't prudent, but there are hundreds if not thousands of native speaker English teachers in Moscow and forcing them to jump through this hoop would collapse the industry and fuck Russians up in the long term (much less will become functional in English). Then again like you said, it's Russia. Anything could happen.
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