“And inflation is kept within the parameters that we announced earlier, the unemployment rate has grown, but not as dramatically as in some other countries,” the president said during a meeting with the head of the RDIF Kirill Dmitriev.
Dmitriev emphasized that Russia has low public debt and inflation, RIA Novosti reports.
Earlier, Russian Minister of Labor and Social Protection Anton Kotyakov called the number of registered unemployed in the country.
The Russian government approved the allocation of 56.2 billion rubles to Rostrud for social benefits for the unemployed in the constituent entities of the Federation and the city of Baikonur.