"Today, on December 24, the head of Yakutia, Aisen Nikolaev, signed a decree declaring December 31, 2020 as a day off in Yakutia," the message says.
In addition, December 31 was declared a non-working day in the Ivanovo region.
This was announced by the Governor of the region Stanislav Voskresensky.
“We had a discussion, like in many other regions, whether to make December 31 a day off ... We, of course, will take such a decision.
All our residents worked selflessly and hard in the past year and absolutely deserve an extra day off, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin recommended that the heads of Russian regions make December 31 a day off.
On December 21, Nevskie Novosti reported that December 31 had been declared a day off in St. Petersburg.