OREANDA-NEWS. On 22 December 2008 was announced, that according to the State Statistics Committee, the level of those registered unemployed increased sharply from 1.9% in October, to 2.3% in November. Meanwhile, the number of officially unemployed increased by 110 thousand or 20.7%, m/m in November 2008 (16.5 thousand people in October) thus reaching the number of unemployed in March 2008.