The number of officially unemployed people in Russia has risen by 0.4% in the week between the 23rd to the 30th of March 2016 and is now 1.065 million. The numbers increased in 56 different regions. This is reported by Rambler News Service with a link to the Ministry of Labor.

      The highest increase (over 1%) is in 26 regions, especially in Nenetsk and Yamalo-Nenetsk regions, North Ossetia and Alania republics, also in Karachaevo-Cherkessk, Chuvashia and Hantimansiysk region, in Smolensk and Kaluga regions. The decrease of the number of unemployed was recorded in 22 regions such as Crimea, Tyva, Kabardino-Balkaria, Sakhalin and Volgograd, Novgorod, Lipetsk, Astrakhan and Perm regions. The level of unemployment remained the same in 7 regions such as Irkutsk, Penza, Novosibirsk, and Murmansk, Chechen, Altay and Mordovia republics.