Growth rate of unemployment in Russia in the week have not changed.

SyuzhetyRost unemployment Rossii30.03.2009Tempy rising unemployment snizyatsyaChislennost officially registered unemployed in Russia was by 8 April 2234 million people, according to a press release MHSD. Last week, the number of unemployed people rose by 1.6 percent. Thus, the growth rate of unemployment in Russia remained on the same level as in the previous week, the figure rose by the same 1.6 percent.
March 30, Vice Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said that the peak growth of unemployment in Russia passed. In doing so, he has not provided accurate statistics to support their words.
The most significant increase in the number of unemployed in the week from 2 to 8 April was reported in the Kaliningrad, Penza, Vologda, Kirov, Orenburg, and fields, as well as in St. Petersburg. On discharge from October 2008 had already reported 32.3 thousand organizations, and the number of laid-off employees for the six months amounted to 314 thousand people.
Number of employees in a simple, or on leave at the initiative of the administration, as well as part-time workers, has reached 1.24 million.
According to the MHSD, the official unemployment rate in the country on the basis of 2009 may reach 2.2 to 2.8 million. Thus, the lower bound of this interval was overcome by 8 April. With regard to the overall unemployment rate, it can achieve in 7 million.