Ministry of Labor: more than 700 thousand people have been left without work since the beginning of the Covid-19 epidemic
An illustrative photo In Russia, since March 2020, more than 735 thousand people have remained without work. In total, there are more than 1.2 million unemployed in the country. This was stated by the Minister of Labor and Social Protection Anton Kotyakov, Interfax reports. "If the citizen has lost their jobs after March 1, and there are more than 208 thousand such citizens, they receive unemployment benefits in the maximum amount, that is 12 thousand 130 rubles," Kotyakov said.