NOVO-OGAREVO, December 2. /TASS/. The unemployment rate in Russia is about 2.7% and the country experiences the labor deficit problem, President Vladimir Putin said at the meeting with young scientists.

"Our unemployment rate is minimal, it is not actually present - 2.7%. This is actually absence of unemployment; we have the workforce deficit problem," Putin said.

The problem can be solved through implementation of new technologies, including the artificial intelligence sphere," the president added.