Career
In 1978, Schandermani received a Master of Arts Degree in Pedagogical Science from the State Pedagogical University in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, part of the former USSR. From 1983 to 1990, he studied Slavic Studies at Free University in Berlin.
In 1995, Schandermani was on mission in the conflict zone of Chechnya, where he started to work as a relief delegate for the International Committee of the Red Cross. He helped to coordinate the humanitarian assistance arriving in Chechnya and monitored the distribution. He had different lines of responsibilities in the Northern Caucasus. In Nalchik/Russia he worked as a warehouse manager. In Grozny he worked as water sanitation fleet manager. He coordinated all fleet movements in support of water distribution network. He provided medical supplies to hospitals in the Chechen controlled areas. He evacuated the wounded from South of Chechnya to the hospitals in Grozny. He established line of contact with the rebel commanders and with the Chechen general Aslan Maskhadov and negotiated the prisoner exchange with him, using his level of culture, his political maturity, his language abilities, his Iranian origin as well as his fundamental knowledge of Russia. He carried out detention-protection activities at the Filtration Points. He registered detainees held in connection with the hostilities by the Russian federal authorities in Grozny. The war zone in Chechnya proved to be a particularly dangerous one for Westerners, even over and above the fighting itself. In his book Mission in Chechnya having had some time to consider his material, he tried to offer an intense rendition of what life was like at the time, including the sort of reports coming in over Russian radio: "Interior troops OMON combing Grozny districts pay special attention to local men. By own experience they know that sometimes civilian with white armband proves to be militant.It is simple to establish: if person has corn on his forefinger because of trigger and there are bruises on his shoulders that appear because of recoil in shooting after several days of fighting, person in question is fighter. I switched off my radio set and asked Foggy, 'What time is it?' He answered, 'Eight o'clock.' There was a thick mist, so thick that the front truck was out of sight."
In the year 1996 he worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Afghanistan as an interpreter and translator. During his mission in Afghanistan his line of responsibility was not only to be a translator. He established contact with the Afghan population.
In 2002, he was a German Agro Action delegate in Afghanistan.
In 2009 he took part in the European Russian language Contest and was among the 500 European winners of 35000 participants, invited to St. Petersburg to take part in the final round of the contest to demonstrate the knowledge and ability to use all the richness and expressiveness of the Russian language. At the grand closing ceremony of the contest the president of the St. Petersburg State University announced that he has received second place in his category and he was awarded with the honorary document of the chairperson of the European Russian language contestfor demonstrating excellence in Russian language.
In 2011 he took part in the International Russian language Contest in St. Petersburg and was among the 600 winners of 65000 participants, invited to St. Petersburg to take part in the final round of the contest and he was awarded with the honorary document of the chairperson of the International Russian language Contest for demonstrating excellence in Russian language.
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