Unemployment in Russia amounted to 5.2 million people or 6.8 percent of the workforce in June 2010, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said on Monday.
State employment services have registered 1.9 million people, including 1.6 million people getting redundancy payments, the service said.
In June 2010, the Russian workforce stood at 76.2 million people or about 54 percent of the total population.
MOSCOW, July 19 (RIA Novosti)
