Russia is short of workers. Companies look to Asia for employees, but they are often disappointed.

Russia has been struggling with a huge labor shortage since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. Unemployment in the country fell from 4.3 to 2.3 percent between 2021 and 2024, and companies there are looking for new employees in vain. That is why they are also trying to recruit them abroad, recently focusing mainly on South Asian countries. How the Russian economy survived Putin's war. The labor shortage in Russia is also exacerbated by the decl…