Russian officials, businesses and media have been reporting shortages of workers across different sectors of the economy for over a year. Now some are saying that the reality of labor deficit is a new reality that the country will have to live with in the coming years. “There will never be cheap labor in our country again,” said Dmitry Sergienkov, CEO of Russia’s leading online recruitment platform HeadHunter, in a September interview with the Kommersant business daily. According to Sergienkov, Russia’s labor force has shrunk by 1 million in the past two years because the smaller, often more d…