Irkutsk will change time zone to Krasnoyarsk time zone

[Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]]

So:

1. Do we know yet whether Irkutsk plans to fall back at the end of the year?
2. If not, do we know whether Irkutsk is to be on "permanent standard time" or "permanent summer time"?

Thanks for any light anyone can shed.

        --ado
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From: Alexander Krivenyshev [worldtimezone at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:08 AM
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Subject: Irkutsk will change time zone to Krasnoyarsk time zone

According to various media sources (in Russian):
http://www.irk.ru/news/20110316/time/
http://www.bratsk.ru/report/show/8416.html

Irkutsk Region (Russia) has received government permission to change time zone
to Krasnoyarsk time zone (UTC+8 summer time after March 27, 2011).
On March 27, 2011 Irkutsk will keep its clock without change to Summer Time
(DST) when most of Russia will move to DST.
After March 27, 2011 time difference between Moscow (UTC+4 after March 27,
2011) and Irkutsk (UTC+8 after March 27, 2011)  will be 4 hours, not 5 hours.

or
http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia27.html

Alexander Krivenyshev,
http://www.worldtimezone.com