Today, March 16, it became known about the preparation of the draft calendar of the holidays the following year, representatives of the Ministry of labour of the Russian Federation.

As have informed in Department, in 2018, the winter holidays, New year and Christmas, citizens of Russia will celebrate 30 December 2017 8 January 2018.

In addition, representatives of the Ministry of labor of Russia has declared the number of days in connection with the Day of defender of the Fatherland. From 23 to 25 February, the Russians will rest.

Also in the Ministry of labor said about the weekend from 8 to 11 March for the celebration of International women’s day.

It is reported that the may holidays will start from 29 April to 2 may. Then there are the working days to 9 may. On Victory Day the people of Russia will rest. The following holidays will be from 3 to 5 November .

As it turned out, the Agency reported mechanism days off on January 6 and 7, which coincide with non-working holidays. They plan to move on March 9 and may 2, respectively. Even the representatives of the Ministry of labour of the Russian Federation plans to transfer days off from Saturday April 28, Saturday 9 June and Saturday 29 Dec Monday 30 April, Monday 11 June and Monday 31 December.

As previously reported, “Russian conversation”, in Russia the celebration of defender of the Fatherland Day in the future can be moved to the end of August.

We will remind, the head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov called to cancel the celebration of Valentine’s Day in schools and other educational institutions of the Republic. Aksenov called this day “psevdoprazdnik” and expressed the opinion that mark it is simply unacceptable.