Russia decided to create a state analogue of LinkedIn

In 2019, work should begin on creating a job search and recruitment platform based on the Jobs in Russia resource, a kind of analogue of the LinkedIn network. It is reported by RBC with reference to the action plan of the federal project "Digital Public Administration" of the national program "Digital Economy".

In total, it is planned to spend about 360 million rubles on “ensuring the operation of the job search and recruitment platform” based on “Work in Russia”. from budget funds.

According to SimilarWeb, in December 2018, the Jobs in Russia page was visited 4.5 million times. LinkedIn, the world's largest network of professional contacts, had 848 million visits. Since the fall of 2016, access to LinkedIn in Russia has been blocked by a court decision due to the fact that the social network violated the law “On Personal Data”.