Thread on recruitment problems in the Russian MIC:
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I found the link for the original article.
Salaries in the Russian MIC depend not just on the occupation but on the average wages on that region. A lot of the enterprises are beyond the Urals where cost of living is much lower than in Moscow or St. Petersburg, so it makes no sense to compare salaries with Western ones. For example the price of a house in Orenburg is like 1/7th the price of one in Moscow.
A lot of the problems these companies have in recruiting staff are because a lot of people do not want to move to these places and they have a limited pool of people to recruit from in the first place. The problem is not just salaries but things like lack of services. The reason why the military industries are there is quite simple. It is because they are less exposed in case of conflict with the West like what happened in WW2 when they had to relocate basically everything from European Russia to beyond the Urals.
Even then production has increased several fold for several products and salaries for the MIC did increase as the post author reluctantly confirms.
As for the "lack of Western electronics" impacting the production of cruise missiles, that is clearly bollocks. The Russians keep producing cruise missiles and using them. How many chips do you think are in a cruise missile anyway? Probably a couple of dozen chips of older types which are easy to source. Russia's MIC has been under sanctions since 2014. If production was a problem they would not have been firing cruise missiles in huge salvos for close to a year.
With regards to the claim of Verstka being "independent Russian media". I really doubt it. Probably not even in Russia.
Salaries in the Russian MIC depend not just on the occupation but on the average wages on that region. A lot of the enterprises are beyond the Urals where cost of living is much lower than in Moscow or St. Petersburg, so it makes no sense to compare salaries with Western ones. For example the price of a house in Orenburg is like 1/7th the price of one in Moscow.
A lot of the problems these companies have in recruiting staff are because a lot of people do not want to move to these places and they have a limited pool of people to recruit from in the first place. The problem is not just salaries but things like lack of services. The reason why the military industries are there is quite simple. It is because they are less exposed in case of conflict with the West like what happened in WW2 when they had to relocate basically everything from European Russia to beyond the Urals.
Even then production has increased several fold for several products and salaries for the MIC did increase as the post author reluctantly confirms.
As for the "lack of Western electronics" impacting the production of cruise missiles, that is clearly bollocks. The Russians keep producing cruise missiles and using them. How many chips do you think are in a cruise missile anyway? Probably a couple of dozen chips of older types which are easy to source. Russia's MIC has been under sanctions since 2014. If production was a problem they would not have been firing cruise missiles in huge salvos for close to a year.
With regards to the claim of Verstka being "independent Russian media". I really doubt it. Probably not even in Russia.
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This is a huge problem. It is not unique in Russia, in my home country we also had this problem. The more rural and isolated areas are in a continuous cycle of emigration and impoverishment that affects all services and the economy.
Going back to Russia, the governor of Yakutia launched a programme to attract doctors to the republic (part of the Russian Federation), most doctors from Yakutia go to other regions when they finish their training, so there is a need for them.
The programme among other things had a one-off payment of 10,000 dollars on arrival, in a region where the average salary is about 500 dollars a month. The programme had all kinds of monetary and other incentives and yet it was a failure and hardly attracted any doctors. Yakutia is an incredibly hostile climatic zone, isolated from the world, with no cities, etc.
It is a common problem and in the end it is difficult to attract talent to these regions and the factories already established there.
Like The MoscowTimes...
Some of them are simply just mouthpieces for the US government, as they are paid for by "NED", a division of the US State Department.
Anyways in other news about May 9:
Regional areas were not nearly as stingy as Moscow in celebrating victory day.
Not sure what kind of message the Kremlin wanted to send with those T34s, but I don't think it quite hit home with anyone.