15 years ago, Dmitry Medvedev "stopped" time in Russia. How was this decision made on the air of the Echo of Moscow - in the new issue of Chronic Today 15 years ago, at the initiative of Dmitry Medvedev, time was "corrected" in Russia. President Medvedev signed a law according to which, in March 2011, the country had to move the clocks forward one hour for the last time - "to summer time" - and stay there. Echo journalist Ksenia Nikonova gathered in the Echo Moscow broadcast archive about the "time reform". Valeria Novodborskaya and Viktor Shandrovych scoffed at this decision, Alexander Prokhanov saw it as "magical technology", and Maksim Shevchenko regretted the "meditation" before flipping the switches. A year later, the return of winter time became a popular demand, and Sergey Aleksechenko explained why Putin put this question to Medvedev himself. In 2014, Russia switched to permanent winter time. Read the transcript of the "Chronicles of Today" program on the Had website.

15 years ago, Dmitry Medvedev "stopped" time in Russia. How was this decision made on the air of the Echo of Moscow - in the new issue of Chronic Today 15 years ago, at the initiative of Dmitry Medvedev, time was "corrected" in Russia. President Medvedev signed a law according to which, in March 2011, the country had to move the clocks forward one hour for the last time - "to summer time" - and stay there. Echo journalist Ksenia Nikonova gathered in the Echo Moscow broadcast archive about the "time reform". Valeria Novodborskaya and Viktor Shandrovych scoffed at this decision, Alexander Prokhanov saw it as "magical technology", and Maksim Shevchenko regretted the "meditation" before flipping the switches. A year later, the return of winter time became a popular demand, and Sergey Aleksechenko explained why Putin put this question to Medvedev himself. In 2014, Russia switched to permanent winter time. Read the transcript of the "Chronicles of Today" program on the Had website.