Russia has recorded its first rise in unemployment since February, climbing from a record low of 2.1% to 2.2% in September. Super-low unemployment, which Vladimir Putin loves to hail as an example of Russia’s economic success, is a sign of the on-going overheating in the labor market. Russia has long faced a labor shortage. The underlying reason — demographics — has not changed for years. The population is aging, birth rates are not growing. Even putting the pension age up five years has not solved the problem. For many years, the government satisfied labor needs via migrants from Central Asia, and,…