State Duma Speaker Volodin created a Telegram poll on the duration of the New Year holidays
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State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin in his personal Telegram channel asked subscribers a question about their attitude to the duration of the New Year holidays in Russia. He recalled that the tradition of resting on New Years and Christmas in Russia originated not so long ago – in 2012.
In the poll published by Volodin, there are three answer options: “let everything remain as it is now”, “the weekend is too long” and “it would be nice to rest these days in the warm season”. The Speaker of the State Duma explained that recently there have been proposals to change the order of rest in January.
Someone proposes to reduce them in favor of the May holidays, someone – to add to the vacation, someone – to completely abandon them.
Vyacheslav Volodinspeaker of the State Duma
As of 12:10, more than 11.3 thousand Telegram users took part in the survey. 58 percent of survey participants voted for keeping the New Year holidays in their current form, 22 percent were in favor of postponing the weekend for the warm season, and just 20 percent for reducing the January holidays.
In November, LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky proposed to shorten the New Year holidays so that people would go to work on January 2. He linked his proposal to the Russian budget for 2022-2024. This is not the first time that the deputy has proposed changing the New Year holidays. In 2020, he came up with the idea of a mandatory weekend from December 31 to January 3 and transferring the rest of the weekend to paid vacation.
The Russians in December have already expressed their attitude to the length of the New Year holidays. Then almost 50 percent of the respondents said that they had a positive attitude to long rest.
