Works in Russia will lose a 11-second metallurgist.

The number of laid-off the Russians in the metallurgical complex in times of crisis will not exceed 100 thousand of the 1.1 million employed in industry experts. The statement was made by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia Stanislav Naumov, reports RIA Novosti. "I want a responsible state, which is estimated to the Ministry of Industry, the worst outlook allows us to say that the industry will continue at least a million places," - said Naumov.
According to the Deputy Minister, the crisis could be used as an opportunity to retrain staff. "Now many people are in a reduced working time. More time should be used for retraining, starting with the removal of banal computer literacy to focus abroad for training", - explained Navumau.
What are estimates of the Ministry of Industry of the crisis, did not specify. Earlier, Minister of Finance of Russia Alexey Kudrin stated that the financial and economic crisis will continue for another 2-3 years. Projections for the growth of unemployment in this period while none of the Russian authorities are not made public.
According to the data at 13 March 2009, the total number of officially registered unemployed in Russia amounted to 2077 million. At the same time in late January of unemployed Russians was less than 1,7 million people. According to the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia, by the end of 2009, official unemployment reached 2.8 million. The total number of unemployed will be seven million.
In the context of the current financial and economic crisis, many companies were forced to begin the reduction of staff to reduce costs, which resulted in rising unemployment. The increase in losses of companies due to the sharp decline in demand for their products in the global market.