Two Fewer Time Zones in Russia

[John Dunn]

I think that at national level the idea had been not so much shelved as put on the back burner, until such time as someone had the time and inclination to put together a nation-wide programme.  As I understand it, the changes that have just taken place are the result of a series of decisions taken at regional level, which neatly demonstrates how to combine federalism with the vertical of power.

John Dunn.



-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Beet <stephenrbeet at GMAIL.COM>
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:39:30 +0700
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Two Fewer Time Zones in Russia

I heard this story but I thought the idea had been shelved.

2010/3/30 Donald J Loewen <djloewen at binghamton.edu>:
>  I don't know if this has already been mentioned on SEELANGS, but I noticed
> only today that Russia just eliminated some time zones to go from 11 to 9.
> (And I even checked to make sure that this wasn't an early April Fool's Day
> edition from Kommersant.  A story like this would be a great candidate for
> April 1!)  I'm no geographer, but it seems like a rather complicated
> decision to eliminate two time zones entirely!  I assume that in some cases
> there is now a two-hour time difference between neighboring time zones, is
> that right?  Interesting that the President proposes it in November and it's
> in place a few months later!
> All the best,
> Don
>

John Dunn
Honorary Research Fellow, SMLC (Slavonic Studies)
University of Glasgow, Scotland

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