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Russia's official jobless rate down to 2.14 mln

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The number of officially registered unemployed people in Russia declined by another 6,000 in the first week of August and stood at 2,140,000, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said on Monday.

MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti) - The number of officially registered unemployed people in Russia declined by another 6,000 in the first week of August and stood at 2,140,000, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said on Monday.

Zhukov said seasonal factors played a large role in the fall in unemployment.

The deputy premier said that in April-July general unemployment in Russia declined from 6.7 million to 6.3 million or 8.3% of the economically active population.

The improvement is not being felt everywhere, however, with rises in the jobless rate seen in April-July in some areas, including the Sverdlovsk Region in the Urals (12% growth), the Samara Region (14.3%), the Nizhny Novgorod Region (15.1%) in the Volga area, and the Republic of Karachayevo-Circassia (20%) in the North Caucasus.

 

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