Overview
- The workweek in Russia runs only from Wednesday to Friday, Nov. 5–7, 2025.
- A government decree on shifting days off for 2025 established the temporary schedule.
- Under the decree, a Monday workday was transferred to Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025.
- The adjustment was made to provide a continuous three-day holiday for the Nov. 4 Day of National Unity.
- RIA Novosti reported the short workweek and cited the federal law that set the holiday in 2004.