Mironov proposes moving New Year days off to May holidays in 2027

On 9 November 2026, Sergei Mironov, a State Duma deputy (member of Russia's lower house of parliament) and leader of the Just Russia party, put forward an idea about the 2027 holiday calendar. He proposed moving part of the 11-day New Year break to May.

The reasoning was that the May holidays in 2027 are divided into two separate parts. Under his proposal, extra days off from the winter break would be shifted to spring, so that people could have a longer, continuous rest in May instead of a split one.

Russia regularly transfers days off between dates to build longer breaks, and the government approves the annual calendar of transfers. Proposals to change it often appear in the autumn, when the next year's schedule is being discussed. Mironov's suggestion was a political initiative, not a government decision, and it prompted debate over how best to distribute rest days across the year. It is the starting point of the discussion that later drew a response from another Duma deputy.