“I decided to make December 31 this year a non-working day.
This working day is postponed to Saturday, December 26, "he wrote on VKontakte.
The head of Tuva noted that residents need rest and "a full sense of the holiday" and urged them to celebrate the New Year with their families.
Earlier, according to the results of a survey of residents, December 31 was made a day off in the Arkhangelsk region.
In addition, a similar decision was made in the Volgograd, Orel, Kostroma, Murmansk, Vologda, Ryazan regions, in Chuvashia and Kamchatka.
December 31 was declared a day off for civil servants in Crimea, as well as in the Vladimir and Kursk regions.
At the same time, the Pskov region refused to declare the last day of 2020 a day off.
Sergei Ivanov, a member of the State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation, in an interview with Inforeactor, commented on the statement of the deputy, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Onishchenko, in which he criticized the long New Year's weekend.