Russia in unemployment crisis

Prime minister Alexander Zukhov thinks that around 500 000 Russians citizens are likely to loose their jobs and that the number of Russians in an enforced leave will not decrease either...
the situation of Russia's key compagnies is critical: around 3000 employees from important firms can loose jobs.
According to the russian statistics agency ,the level of unemployment has reached 8,1 per cent.
At the end of last year, President Medvedev said that temporary unemployment in Russia was the most dangerous consequence of the global crisis.
Even if there are some recent positive changes in the development of the nation’s economy, that doesn’t show any any improvement for the labor market yet.
Medvedev added “Unfortunately, the current crisis stipulates a very long unemployment period. The number of jobs will be our big problem for long,”
My Opinion:
This rise of unemployment has made people react. For example some Russians are angry about the 10 million immigrants (native foreigners of central Asia and South Caucasus) in Russia because they think these immigrants are taking too many jobs from them.

Deborah

http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/03-02-2010/112007-unemployed-0