A new holiday will appear in Kazakhstan

A new holiday will appear in Kazakhstan

National Press Day is planned to be celebrated on February 2.

A new holiday - National Press Day is planned to be celebrated in Kazakhstan on February 2. The corresponding draft resolution of the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan was published on the portal "Open RLA". As stated in the message, the new holiday was proposed to be added to the calendar at the initiative of the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan and on behalf of the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Aida Balayeva. The document emphasizes that June 28 was declared the "Day of Media Workers", and from 2021, October 1 - the Day of Radio Workers. This tradition will stimulate employees in this field, emphasizing the importance of the media," the explanatory note to the document says. The date of the first issue of the national publication has become a tradition in such countries as Russia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan. It is important to make the release date of the first issue of the newspaper "Kazakh", standing at the origins of the media, a historically significant date," the authors of the resolution note. Recall that in December last year, Kazakhstan added two new holiday dates - the Day of Financial Monitoring Bodies and the Day of the Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Afghanistan, which are celebrated on January 28 and February 15, respectively.