The increase in unemployment in January-September 2008 was recorded in nine Russian regions and the higher the level registered in Chechnya and Ingushetia. No work, respectively, 65.3 and 27.9 per cent of the economically active population in these regions, RIA Novosti with reference to Rosstat.
Increased the number of unemployed, in particular, and in Perm Stavropol Territory, the Amur, Lipetsk, Smolensk and Omsk region.
However, in most regions of the Russian Federation official number of unemployed during this period decreased. A total at the end of September in Russia, according to Rosstat, it was 1247 million officially registered unemployed Russians.
In December, Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin stated that the projected increase in the number of officially registered unemployed Russians to two million people from 1.7 million currently.
It should be noted that according to the same Rosstat, in October the total number of Russians left without jobs totaled 4.6 million, including the officially registered.
The Government of Russia has stated that it intends to halve the quota for foreign workers, as well as to combat unemployment up to 50 billion rubles employment services the country. Total shortly Russian companies intend to cut at least 200 thousand people.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
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