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Originally Posted by mineistaken
So how it is additional 12 days if it is just 12 days total? Unless you had no days off during that period in previous years which would be hard to believe.
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Additional means:
in addition to their paid yearly vacations.
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Originally Posted by DamageX
Actually that's only for the Russian Orthodox church. The Greek Orthodox church celebrates Christmas on December 25th.
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Course not. Same in Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia (the motherland of Christianity) and many other countries.
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Originally Posted by stoka
those vacations are only for public sector to enjoy in, the ordinary slaves get only a day or two off
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Do you mean police, FSB, army, emergency etc? Yes, those "slaves" work during New Year holidays too. That's why they have twice longer paid yearly vacations
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Originally Posted by aka123
With Russian life expectancy you got to party hard, like there wouldn't be tomorrow.  |
It's growing pretty fast. What's wrong with that?
In 2013 it was 71 years. In Moscow area today it's
75.8. It's much higher than during a whole Soviet era
