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List of Holidays in Azerbaijan in 2018
Baku / 04.01.18 / Turan: In 2018, in accordance with the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan, holiday non-working days in connection with the Novruz holiday will be on March 20-24.
Since March 24 is on Saturday, the day off is postponed to the next business day on March 26. Thus, after two days off on March 17-18, there will be one working day - March 19, followed by seven non-working days.
In March, there will be one more holiday non-working day - Women's Day March 8.
Two festive non-working days will be in May: May 9 - Victory Day and May 28 Republic Day. The latter will fall this year on Monday and thus there will be three non-working days in a row.
The Ramadan holiday will be celebrated in 2018 on June 15-16. Since June 15 is also the National Salvation Day, and June 16 is Saturday, the non-working days on the occasion of the holiday are to be postponed to the next two working days according to the labor legislation.
On August 22-23 Azerbaijan will celebrate Kurban Bayram (Holy Sacrifice Holiday).
November 9 will be celebrated as Flag Day.
The last day of the year - December 31 will be celebrated as the Day of Solidarity of World Azerbaijanis. -06D
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- 4 January 2018 13:35
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