The labor market in Russia should fully recover by the end of this year, such an order was given by President Vladimir Putin. He stated this at a meeting on economic issues, the transcript of which was published on the Kremlin website.
“By the end of this year, it is necessary to achieve a complete restoration of the labor market. As you know, this task has been set before the government, and it must be fulfilled,” the head of state said and added that in the past few months there has been a tendency towards a decrease in unemployment , but its level is still high.
Now, the President stressed, it is important to enter a sustainable development trajectory. “This applies not only to the national economy, but also to the social sphere, demography, which we must still talk about separately, ecology and other important areas that are enshrined in the decree on long-term national goals,” he commented.
Earlier on Thursday, January 21, the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation Andrei Pudov announced that now 2.6 million people are considered unemployed in the country. Official statistics take into account only those Russians who joined the labor exchange.