Hey, that's my line.
Posted on 07/27/2015 8:19:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Vladimir Putin has fired 110,000 people.
The Russian president signed a decree two weeks ago that reduced the number of full-time employees in the interior ministry of Russia by about 10% — or 110,000 people.
Most of the cuts will be to administrative staff. It will bring the total number of employees in the agency down to just above 1 million, according to CNN Money.
The interior ministry is in charge of the Russian police, paramilitary security forces, and road-traffic safety.
The interior ministry's press service also told RIA Novosti that these reduction plans would affect the management structure at the regional level and higher, according to Lenta.Ru.
"The number of departments at the district level will remain unchanged — that is, precisely those who work directly 'on the ground' and interact directly with citizens," the press service said.
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Bizzarro world. Russians are shrinking the size of government. America is expanding the size of government.
Top that, Trump!
They left off, ".....out of a canon."
Cutting administrative staff, and keeping on people who actually DO things. We should get so smart!
I thought he was trying to catch up to Trump.
Russkies have an economy built on oil, which currently is plunging back below 50 dollars a barrel.
In Russia, “Firing” usually means a one-way ticket to The Lubyanka.
Hey, that's my line.
Russians are doing that because they ran out of money. 110,000 being 10% means their police force was 1,1 million. That is roughly the same headcount as the USA, but their population is over two times smaller.
Too bad we couldn’t just fire 535. Well.... minus Cruz and a few others
Hmmm, interesting time we are living.
There’s got to be more to this tidbits.
More likely that they would lay off the people the managers dislike than firing the least productive. Productive is a bad thing in bureaucratic circles.
Not to mention the Chinese seem to be backing out of the deal for the natural gas pipeline.
-——The interior ministry is in charge of the Russian police, paramilitary security forces, and road-traffic safety.-——
Population 143,975,923
by simple arithmetic 1,000,000/143,975,923=0.0069456057593741
or .07% of the population are in the interior ministry
Check your calculations. It is 0.7%.
“Bizzarro world. Russians are shrinking the size of government.”
Meh. Stalin used to do this all of the time. Of course, the employees weren’t “fired”, per se...
ROFL ROFL
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