Path paved to link India’s skill base with Russia’s demand for labourers

India and Russia signed two agreements on Friday, December 5, 2025, that will increase the mobility of Indian semi-skilled and skilled workers to Russia; official sources stated that New Delhi will increasingly benefit from India’s “strength” in the “semi-skilled workers” category in the coming years.

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List of results after 23^third It was stated that at the India-Russia annual summit, an agreement on “Temporary Labor Activities of Citizens of a State in the Territory of the other State” was signed between the two sides and a second agreement between the two governments on “Cooperation in Combating Irregular Migration”.

The mobility agreements will provide a framework for the employment of Indian workers in Russia and ensure that they do not face the difficulties faced by Indians who were fraudulently persuaded by agents to fight on behalf of Russian armed forces in Ukraine over the last three years, an official said. “Mobility agreements will help us know where our global job seekers are going,” a source said.

Foreign Minister Vikram Misri told a briefing that the issue of Indian men fighting for the Russian armed forces was prominent in the talks. He urged Indian citizens to be careful while accepting job offers to work abroad.

Hindu had previously reported that there was a demand for half a million semi-skilled workers in Russia; This is one of the factors that pushes Moscow to reach out to friendly countries. The issue of mobility featured prominently in External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s address to a conclave. India’s World When he said in the December 3 issue of magazine that the Government of India wants to be a “facilitator” of mobility through “official regulations”.

“The reality is that mobility is becoming an increasingly important factor of the international economy… We know there is a market for mobility,” Mr. Jaishankar said at the event, stressing the need for official regulations.