The number of officially unemployed people in Russia has risen by 0.4% during the last week 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 noted in 26 regions.  Among them are Nenetsk and Yamalo-Nenetsk regions, North Ossetia and Alania republics, Karachaevo-Cherkessk, Chuvashia and Hantimansiysk region, Smolensk and Kaluga provinces.

      The decrease of the number of unemployed was recorded in 22 regions such as Crimea, Tyva, Kabardino-Balkaria, Sakhalin, as well as in 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.