The State Duma again did not support the idea of extending the May holidays by shortening the New Year break. This year Russians will again rest three days on May Day and Victory Day, from May 1 to 3 and from 9 to 11. The proposal to move part of the January holidays to May so gardeners would have more time for their plots again found no support among most lawmakers.
The State Duma has once again declined to support proposals to increase the number of days off during the May holidays by reducing the New Year holidays. This year, as usual, Russians will have three days off for the May holidays: May 1-3 and 9-11.Proposals to increase the number of days off in May by taking several days away from the January holidays are submitted to the State Duma every year. This year was no exception: United Russia deputy Vasily Zakharyashchev proposed amending the Labor Code of the Russian Federation and cutting the New Year holidays to the “necessary minimum” - January 1 and 2. The other three days would be added to May Day, so that in spring Russians could… dig in their gardens to their heart’s content.
“Shifting the New Year holidays to the May days will serve the interests of 20 million families of gardeners, vegetable growers, and dacha owners, or a total of 70 million Russians covered by the sphere of non-commercial land use and constituting a significant segment of Russian civil society,” Vasily Zakharyashchev believes. But most State Duma deputies disagree with him, so for now everything remains in its place.