Moscow, July 10 -- Russia's Labor Ministry today outrightly rejected reports that it plans to recruit as many as 1 million workers from India by the end of 2025.
The Moscow Times had on Wednesday quoted the head of the Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry Andrei Besedin saying that the arrival of Indian workers would assuage the country's deepening labor shortage.
Besedin had said that Russia is currently facing labor shortage, particularly in the Sverdlovsk region.
Meanwhile, Russia's Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs has floated the idea of building vocational training schools in India to prepare laborers specifically for the Russian job market.
But the Labor Ministry later told the RBC news website that the recruitment of wor...