Weekend manual

President of Bashkiria Rustem Khamitov proposed to declare the Muslim holidays to Kurban-Bayram and Uraza-Bayram for non-working days. He proposes to solve this issue at the federal level, that is, for the whole of Russia. Which is quite logical, since Muslims live throughout Russia, and not just in Bashkiria.

The proposal of the Bashkir President is a reaction to the decision of the Supreme Court of Russia, which satisfied the claims of the plaintiff, to whom all Bashkir courts refused his claims. And the claims of the resident of Ufa journalist Sergei Dulov are that he does not want to forcefully relax on Muslim religious holidays, since he does not profess Islam. In Bashkiria, the days of the celebration of Uraza-Bayram and Kurban Bayram are officially considered a weekend.

The conflict is obvious. Muslims want to have a day off on a holiday for them, non -Muslim - no. There are more than 4 million people in Bashkiria, about half of them Muslims. Fans of simple solutions offer to solve such problems based on what religion in these places dominant. Naturally, it is not about the rights of religious minorities.

The traditional Soviet decision (under socialist democracy) is that the state itself determines all holidays at once for the whole country. The traditional Russian decision (with sovereign democracy) is that the regions additionally determine their holidays. As Bashkiria did, albeit completely in advance. An unconventional decision (with normal democracy) would have been that every citizen himself determines the days of his religious holidays for himself.

This is not at all as strange as it might seem at first glance. Now, under the federal law, the weekend is January 7th - Orthodox Christmas. Why the whole country, in which there are many nationalities and faiths, should be unimportant to celebrate the holiday of one religion, is not a logical explanation. Moreover, the state, by legislatively approving the feast of one confession chosen, grossly violates the requirement of Article 14 of the Constitution, proclaiming Russia a secular state in which "religious associations are separated from the state and are equal before the law." By the way, the regional authorities do the same, by the way, establishing at their regional level holidays for religion prevailing here.

The way out, oddly enough, is simple: federal legislation should provide each citizen with two or three days off a year, which he can use by celebrating his religious holidays. Christians-for Christmas and Easter, Muslims-to Uraza-Bayram and Kurban Bayram, Jews-on Passes and Purim, or to anyone like any holiday of any denomination. Atheists should also be able to walk their holidays during the year or attach them to vacation.

Some production difficulties are inevitable. Some enterprises and institutions with a religiously homogeneous team for the holidays will close; Others will attract temporary workers or plan a work schedule in such a way as to cause the lowest damage to production. Freedom of conscience, like freedom in general, requires some victims. But the legal requirements of believers will be satisfied, the constitution is observed and possible complications on such sensitive soil as a religious life are prevented.