The call-up of men to fight in Ukraine has left labour so scarce in Russia that entire industries are in distress.
Two months after the Kremlin announced the mobilisation, a record depletion of workers is fast spreading across a country already hobbled by an ageing and shrinking population and with unemployment near the lowest ever...
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