Zhirinovsky because of the weather again invited to start the school year on 1 October

The head of the Duma fraction of LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that the beginning of the school year in Russia, the need to move from 1 September to 1 October. His words on Friday, July 21, leads TASS.

“We will insist that the school year was from October 1 to summer to extend at least through September. In September, gorgeous weather”, — the politician told journalists on Friday.

According to him, once the school year begins with this date. This provided a good rest the state Duma and the citizens, said the leader of the liberal democratic party.

In September 2016, shortly after the elections, Zhirinovsky has offered the same at a meeting of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin with the presidents of the parties, held in the seventh convocation of the state Duma. However, he said that the compensation is to extend the academic year until July 15.

In Russia, the first schools were parish and school year starts in first day of fall, which coincided with the beginning of the New year on the Church calendar. In 1699 Peter I issued a decree on the transfer of the New year on 1 January in accordance with European traditions, but the school year since then, invariably began on 1 September.

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