Russia's Supreme Court Approves Year-Round Summer Time

Russia’s Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday an appeal to scrap the year-round summer time pattern established by the government in 2011, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the courtroom. The complaint had been filed by the League for Defense of Patients, which claimed the government's decision does not comply with Russian and international laws and negatively affects citizens' lives, health and recreation habits. Government officials and a state prosecutor, who attended the court session, asked the judges to reject the complaint as baseless. Alexander Saversky, head of the League for Defense of Patients, said after the court session that he and his colleagues would appeal the Supreme Court’s decision. “I simply tried to defend the right of citizens and children to normal sleep,” the plaintiff said.

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