MOSCOW: The total number of Russia’s time zones fell from 11 to nine on Sunday as part of an initiative backed by President Dmitry Medvedev to tighten the sprawling country’s economic integration.
Russia’s far eastern regions of Kamchatka and Chukotka, located near the US state of Alaska, went from being nine hours ahead of Moscow to eight, putting them in the same time zone as the neighbouring Magadan region.
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