“I think that it is necessary to make such a decision at the legislative level, to make it the next year - we did not have time now - December 31, the day off,” Matvienko quoted TASS.
At the same time, she urged to consider due to what day off December 31 could be a day off, and noted that the number of days off would not be increased.
Earlier, the governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal decided not to declare December 31 a day off in the region.
At the beginning of December, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with representatives of the HRC, assessed the possibility of making December 31 a day off in 2019, noting that he had heard a request, but there was very little time for such decisions.