# [2019.12.28] New Year Holidays

One of the best things about Russia is a long-established tradition
not to do anything particularly useful around the New Year. First,
there are state holidays during the first eight days of January this
year. Then, the last week of the year is going to have only two
working days. The same is with the first working week of 2020. So
some people will have a holiday from today till December 13th which,
as you understand, is even longer than an annual two weeks paid
leave. Some people fill in the working days' gaps with their paid
leave days, and some with unpaid. Some prefer to become 'sick'. And
sometimes there are neither anything to do nor anybody to control
your presence at a workplace. I guess that my New Year holidays won't
be so prolonged as I described but I'll to get some fun anyway.