Russia Has 869,848 Unemployed

4 October 2016 (13:07)

UrBC, Moscow, October 4, 2016. The number of Russians officially registered as jobless came to 869,848 people last month, Prime refers to the Russian Labor Ministry representatives as stating.

‘The number of job-seekers registered with the state-run employment agencies dropped by 1.4% between September 21 and September 28, 2016 and reached 869,848 people (against 881,980 people on September 21),’ the ministry says.

It is also reported that the number of jobless rose in twelve federal constituencies, among them Ingushetia, Yakutia, Sevastopol, Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region, and Murmansk Region.


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