 Moscow - Russia is doing away with daylight saving time, keeping the clocks unchanged starting this year, with President Dmitry Medvedev telling the Interfax news agency on Tuesday that the time adjustment put strain on the organism and caused stress. Daylight saving time, practiced in every European country except Iceland and in many other countries around the world, was introduced as a way to save energy.
– Russia has decided to eliminate daylight saving time and will keep its clocks unchanged this October and beyond, UPI International reports. President Dmitry Medvedev said he decided to cancel the shift, which the country has practiced since 1981, because of potential "stress and illnesses" on people shifting their biological clocks. It's also a little less complicated for a country with nine time zones, notes Monsters & Critics.