VIA website saucy:

“Russia Drops Daylight Savings Time”

 Interesting.. Russia now has one of the easiest time zone maps to understand in the world–even with the immense size of the nation.

And why, you ask, did Russia decide to get rid of something they have been doing since the Cold War days of 1981? “Potential stress and illness” of course..

President Dmitry Medvedev, and therefore Vlad the impaler Putin, made the call..