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Russian unemployment reached another record low of 2.6% in April, according to the latest data from RosStat, down by 0.1 percentage points month on month, and being yet another sign of the continuous economic overheating. (chart) As followed closely by bne IntelliNews, in the wake of the full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, mobilisation and the brain drain it has caused, Russia faces a mounting labour crisis as worker shortages grow and the labour market shows the lowest number of young workers since the early 1990s. At the same time real wages in March continued to outpace inflation, grow…

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