Medvedev offered to send the unemployed to the mines.

The President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev offered to allow the gold to private persons, informs RIA Novosti. "This is a question of employment, I propose the Government to look back to that. If there is something could be done, let's try to do it," - he said.
Medvedev made the statement in response to an initiative by the Chairman of the Magadan Regional Duma Alexander Alexandrov. MP Medvedev recalled that Magadan authorities have repeatedly asked federal authorities to allow "free Prinos" gold. "It's not even so much increase the amount of gold, but will reduce social tension," - explained Aleksandrov president.
Earlier, the Russian authorities have already spoken with a number of initiatives aimed at ensuring the work of the Russians. Thus, the Minister of Health and sotsrazvitiya Russia Tatiana Golikova proposed to employ temporary unemployment of Russians in the construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi and bridges to the island in the Russian Far East, where the 2012 APEC summit to be held.
Ministry of Sports and Tourism, in turn, promised to provide jobs for unemployed Russians in the tourism industry, a Transport Ministry of Russia reported that temporarily unemployed individuals may be employed to work on repairing and building roads.
For its part, the party "United Russia" in early February, has offered to provide the Russians left without work, plots of land in Siberia and the Far East if the move there permanently.
According to the Ministry of Health, to March 13, the number of officially registered unemployed in Russia exceeded in 2.77 million. The reason for the growth of unemployment has become an economic crisis, which forced the company to reduce staff to reduce costs.