Federation of Trade Unions of Russia was accused of concealing information about the dismissals.

Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR), the largest in the country, concealing data on dismissals in enterprises. It says "Nezavisimaya Gazeta".
Journalists editions have been unable to obtain in FNPR even reductions in overall statistics. The organization said that this information is strictly confidential, and could affect the share prices of enterprises. " The heads of trade unions in the regions of the heads of companies offer the promise of confidentiality. At a formal request issued in FNPR said that the overall statistics of layoffs at Russia organization does not have.
At the end of November 2008 the number of officially registered unemployed stood at 1.29 million. In doing so, in 2007, was laid off 1.49 million. Thus, official statistics on unemployment in a crisis shows data is lower than last year, said "Rossiyskaya Gazeta". In doing so, according to Rosstat, in October the total number of unemployed in Russia grew to 4.6 million people, at 1.7 per cent higher than that in September 2008.
The newspaper Kommersant, which conducted a poll of top managers and owners of Russian companies, said that more than 80 per cent of firms cut people or pay staff. Total shortly Russian companies intend to cut about 200 thousand people.
The magazine "Russian Newsweek" earlier reported that the Russian government following the dismissal of the country through a special program for the prevention of social crises in the region. In particular, information about the dismissals will be collected headquarters crisis with the regional ministries.
FNPR formed in 1990, brings together 28 million people, representing more than 95 percent of all union members in Russia.