Saturday 30 June will be a working day

• 2.06.2012, 10:22

Working day is transferred from Monday July 2 to Saturday 30 June.

The Council of Ministers has issued a directive shifting the working day on July 2, Monday, to June 30, Saturday, to have three days of rest in a row in the country on the occasion of Belarus' Independence Day (Day of the Republic), which is observed on July 3.

The third of July is the anniversary the 1944 liberation of the city of Minsk in World War II. Before a November 1996 national referendum, this date was officially observed as Day of the Liberation of Belarus from the German Invaders, and Independence Day was celebrated on July 27.