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On the whole, during consideration of an unemployment rate in Russia in all the time period
(from 2012 to 2015) this indicator remains highly stable with seasonal reduction in summery
periods. In Q4 2015 the number of unemployed in the Russian Federation was 4371,9
thousand people, which corresponded to 5,7 %. For comparison: in Q4 2014 there were
3927,6 thousand unemployed in the country (5,2 %).

 It is noticeable this rate always increases in the first quarter 
 of every year, gradually decreasing by second and third 
 quarter, with slight increase by the fourth in dynamics. 
For the absolute number of unemployed the Crimean federal district is the most favorable
region. The smallest number of unemployed were recorded precisely in the peninsula in
fourth quarter of 2015: every 75,6 thousand persons, but the relative ratio, every 6,5 % of
unemployed in Crimea are the value which is above central-Russian 5,7 %. In the Q1 2015
there were 106,6 thousand unemployed, or 9,6 % (also greater than an average in the
country of an indicator in Q1 2015 of 5,7 %), in this federal district.
On the relative ratio of unemployment Moscow is the absolute leader: in all the considered
time range, this level does not rise above 2 % (such an indicator was noted in fourth quarter
of 2013). For the end of 2015 (in Q4) an unemployment rate in the capital was 1,7 %
(124,4 thousand people) and a year earlier 1,4 % (101,7 thousand people).
The greatest number of unemployed were fixed in fourth quarter of 2015 by the RSSS in the
Siberian federal district: 838,6 thousand people. It slightly exceeds level medium in Russia
by 2,8 % and is 8,5 %. A year earlier the number of unemployed was 731,3 thousand people
(7,4 %) in Siberia.

 In our view, increase of this rate is related to an overall 
 recession of industrial production which has large 
 concentration precisely in the regions of the Siberian 
 federal district.