"Mass unemployment has usually been seen as a necessary accompaniment to major structural adjustment, yet in Russia, amid economic collapse, enormous structural changes have taken place with remarkably low levels of unmeployment. Some have seen low unemployment as a sign that Russia has undergone no rela changes, but others see it as a sign of remarkably flexible labour market ... On this interpretation, Russia shows to the world, in extreme form, both the benefits and the costs of labour market flexibility" (Quoted from site)