Registered unemployment rate fell to 6.6% in March

The registered unemployment rate amounted to 6.6 percent in March 2018 compared to 6.8 percent in the previous month, according to a statement from the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy (MRPiPS), citing data from job centers. This indicator is 1.4 percentage points higher than a year earlier. "The number of unemployed in March 2018 amounted to 1.09 million people, compared to February 2018, it decreased by 33,200 people, or 2.9 percent," the release read. In this year's budget, the government assumed that the registered unemployment rate will amount to 6.4 percent at the end of 2018.