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Some saw their families for only about 10 weeks during winter, when the lakes froze and transport became impossible.

“If we froze everything in time, I think you’d say this is a fine labor market, but the direction in which things are pointing suggests a risk that it could soften up further,” Feroli said.

The first began after Western nations froze Russia’s foreign currency reserves in the wake of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The carrier earlier this year froze rates for a swath of its customers for three years in a bid to hold on to cellphone users irked by years of price rises.

It has felt the heat before; when the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo got the award in 2010, Beijing froze diplomatic ties with Oslo and imposed economic sanctions in a row that lasted six years.