Sources: Лента новостей РИА Новости (Moscow) and Russian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, has signed and officially gazetted its previously-announced annual "Постановление Правительства Российской Федерации от 04.08.2016 № 756 "О переносе выходных дней в 2017 году", which lists the official non-working public holidays and bridge holidays in Russia for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]