OREANDA-NEWS  It is important to raise the level of education, retraining, and adaptation of specialists to form a competitive labor market, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

"It is important to further improve the level of education, retraining, and adaptation of specialists, and to combine the efforts of employers and government agencies to form a modern, competitive labor market and in-demand human resources of the future," Putin said in an address published on the Kremlin's website.