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# republished in Finest Hour (Spring 2002) 1(114):26
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# http://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/finesthour/Vol.01%20No.114.pdf
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# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
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# From Paul Eggert (2015-08-08):
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# The OED Supplement says that the English originally said "Daylight Saving"
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# when they were debating the adoption of DST in 1908; but by 1916 this
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# term appears only in quotes taken from DST's opponents, whereas the
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# proponents (who eventually won the argument) are quoted as using "Summer".
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# The term "Summer Time" was introduced by Herbert Samuel, Home Secretary; see:
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# Viscount Samuel. Leisure in a Democracy. Cambridge University Press
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# ISBN 978-1-107-49471-8 (1949, reissued 2015), p 8.
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# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-19):
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# A source at the British Information Office in New York avers that it's
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# From an anonymous contributor (1996-06-02):
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# The law governing time in Ireland is under Statutory Instrument SI 395/94,
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# which gives force to European Union 7th Council Directive # 94/21/EC.
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# which gives force to European Union 7th Council Directive No. 94/21/EC.
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# Under this directive, the Minister for Justice in Ireland makes appropriate
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# regulations. I spoke this morning with the Secretary of the Department of
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# Justice (tel +353 1 678 9711) who confirmed to me that the correct name is
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Rule Russia 1921 only - Mar 20 23:00 2:00 MSM # Midsummer
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Rule Russia 1921 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 MSD
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Rule Russia 1921 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
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# Act No.925 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1980-10-24):
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# Act No. 925 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1980-10-24):
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Rule Russia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
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Rule Russia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
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# Act No.967 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1984-09-13), repeated in
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# Act No.227 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1989-03-14):
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# Act No. 967 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1984-09-13), repeated in
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# Act No. 227 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1989-03-14):
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Rule Russia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
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Rule Russia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
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# From Plamen Simenov via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
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# A document of Government of Bulgaria (No.94/1997) says:
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# A document of Government of Bulgaria (No. 94/1997) says:
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# EET -> EETDST is in 03:00 Local time in last Sunday of March ...
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# EETDST -> EET is in 04:00 Local time in last Sunday of October
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# From Mart Oruaas (2000-01-29):
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# Regulation no. 301 (1999-10-12) obsoletes previous regulation
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# no. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all
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# Regulation No. 301 (1999-10-12) obsoletes previous regulation
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# No. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all
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# the year round. The regulation is effective 1999-11-01.
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# From Toomas Soome (2002-02-21):
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# correct data in juridical acts and I found some juridical documents about
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# changes in the counting of time in Latvia from 1981....
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# Act No.35 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1981-01-22 ...
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# according to the Act No.925 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1980-10-24
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# Act No. 35 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1981-01-22 ...
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# according to the Act No. 925 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1980-10-24
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# ...: all year round the time of 2nd time zone + 1 hour, in addition turning
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# the hands of the clock 1 hour forward on 1 April at 00:00 (GMT 31 March 21:00)
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# and 1 hour backward on the 1 October at 00:00 (GMT 30 September 20:00).
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# Act No.592 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1984-09-24 ...
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# according to the Act No.967 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1984-09-13
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# Act No. 592 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1984-09-24 ...
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# according to the Act No. 967 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1984-09-13
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# ...: all year round the time of 2nd time zone + 1 hour, in addition turning
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# the hands of the clock 1 hour forward on the last Sunday of March at 02:00
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# (GMT 23:00 on the previous day) and 1 hour backward on the last Sunday of
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# September at 03:00 (GMT 23:00 on the previous day).
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# Act No.81 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1989-03-22 ...
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# according to the Act No.227 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1989-03-14
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# Act No. 81 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1989-03-22 ...
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# according to the Act No. 227 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1989-03-14
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# ...: since the last Sunday of March 1989 in Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR,
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# Estonian SSR and Kaliningrad region of Russian Federation all year round the
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# time of 2nd time zone (Moscow time minus one hour). On the territory of Latvia
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# From Andrei Ivanov (2000-03-06):
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# This year Latvia will not switch to Daylight Savings Time (as specified in
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# The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Rep. of Latvia of
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# 29-Feb-2000 (#79) <http://www.lv-laiks.lv/wwwraksti/2000/071072/vd4.htm>,
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# 29-Feb-2000 (No. 79) <http://www.lv-laiks.lv/wwwraksti/2000/071072/vd4.htm>,
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# in Latvian for subscribers only).
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# From RFE/RL Newsline
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# News from Moldova (in russian):
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# http://ru.publika.md/link_317061.html
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# From Roman Tudos (2015-07-02):
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# http://lex.justice.md/index.php?action=view&view=doc&lang=1&id=355077
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# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-01):
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# The abovementioned official link to IGO1445-868/2014 states that
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# 2014-10-26's fallback transition occurred at 03:00 local time. Also,
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# http://www.trm.md/en/social/la-30-martie-vom-trece-la-ora-de-vara
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# says the 2014-03-30 spring-forward transition was at 02:00 local time.
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# Guess that since 1997 Moldova has switched one hour before the EU.
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# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
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Rule Moldova 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
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Rule Moldova 1997 max - Oct lastSun 3:00 0 -
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# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1880
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# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-09-15):
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# Based on last Russian Government Decree # 725 on August 31, 2011
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# Based on last Russian Government Decree No. 725 on August 31, 2011
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# (Government document
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# http://www.government.ru/gov/results/16355/print/
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# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia36.htm
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# From Sanjeev Gupta (2011-09-27):
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# Scans of [Decree #23 of January 8, 1992] are available at:
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# Scans of [Decree No. 23 of January 8, 1992] are available at:
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# http://government.consultant.ru/page.aspx?1223966
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# They are in Cyrillic letters (presumably Russian).
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# One source is
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# http://government.ru/gov/results/16355/
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# which, according to translate.google.com, begins "Decree of August 31,
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# 2011 No 725" and contains no other dates or "effective date" information.
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# 2011 No. 725" and contains no other dates or "effective date" information.
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# Another source is
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# http://www.rg.ru/2011/09/06/chas-zona-dok.html
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# which, according to translate.google.com, begins "Resolution of the
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# Government of the Russian Federation on August 31, 2011 N 725" and also
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# contains "Date first official publication: September 6, 2011 Posted on:
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# in the 'RG' - Federal Issue number 5573 September 6, 2011" but which
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# in the 'RG' - Federal Issue No. 5573 September 6, 2011" but which
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# does not contain any "effective date" information.
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# Another source is
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# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oymyakonsky_District#cite_note-RuTime-7
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# which, in note 8, contains "Resolution #725 of August 31, 2011...
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# which, in note 8, contains "Resolution No. 725 of August 31, 2011...
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# Effective as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication"
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# but which does not contain any reference to September 6, 2011.
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# changed in May.
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2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1994 May
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# From IATA SSIM (1994/1997), which also says that Kerch is still like Kiev.
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3:00 E-Eur MSK/MSD 1996 Mar 31 3:00s
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3:00 E-Eur MSK/MSD 1996 Mar 31 0:00s
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3:00 1:00 MSD 1996 Oct 27 3:00s
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# IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Crimea switched to EET/EEST.
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# Assume it happened in March by not changing the clocks.
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# from current Russia Zone 6 - Krasnoyarsk Time Zone (KRA) UTC +0700
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# to Russia Zone 5 - Novosibirsk Time Zone (NOV) UTC +0600
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# This is according to Government of Russia decree # 740, on September
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# This is according to Government of Russia decree No. 740, on September
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# 14, 2009 "Application in the territory of the Kemerovo region the Fifth
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# time zone." ("Russia Zone 5" or old "USSR Zone 5" is GMT +0600)
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Zone Atlantic/Canary -1:01:36 - LMT 1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C.
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-1:00 - CANT 1946 Sep 30 1:00 # Canaries T
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0:00 - WET 1980 Apr 6 0:00s
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0:00 1:00 WEST 1980 Sep 28 0:00s
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0:00 1:00 WEST 1980 Sep 28 1:00u
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# IATA SSIM (1996-09) says the Canaries switch at 2:00u, not 1:00u.
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# Ignore this for now, as the Canaries are part of the EU.
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# From Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice,
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# via Garrett Wollman (2003-01-27):
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# BTW, I've found the official document on this matter. It's government
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# regulations number 509, May 13, 1996. In my poor translation it says:
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# regulations No. 509, May 13, 1996. In my poor translation it says:
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# "Time in Ukraine is set to second timezone (Kiev time). Each last Sunday
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# of March at 3am the time is changing to 4am and each last Sunday of
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# October the time at 4am is changing to 3am"
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# On September 20, 2011 the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada agreed to
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# abolish the transfer clock to winter time.
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# Bill number 8330 of MP from the Party of Regions Oleg Nadoshi got
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# Bill No. 8330 of MP from the Party of Regions Oleg Nadoshi got
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# approval from 266 deputies.
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# Ukraine abolishes transfer back to the winter time (in Russian)