The best Russian expert in labor issues named his monograph on Russian labor market development as “Adaptation without restructuring” . At the first glance, this seems exaggerated. The Russian statistics presents the common trends of a post-industrial society – the decline of employment in industry and agriculture, the sharp raise of services (see Appendix, Table A1). The economy also absorbed well the additional entrants to the labor force -- the number of the population of working age experienced stable growth since 83,7 million persons in 1993 to 87,3 million persons in 2001, while unemployment remained low. In 2000-2005 the total number of unemployed stood at the level of 2 million (2,8% of the active population). The number of unemployed calculated accordingly to the methodology of the International Labor Office was in April 2005 around 5,8 million, or 7,9% of economically active population6. This figure remained stable in the second half of 2005-first half of 2006.