The governor of Samara region put forward the initiative to make the region live at Moscow time. There is no rationale of this act but it is supposed that it allows regional officials to become closer to the federal centre emotionally.

Meanwhile only one region – Udmurtia remains in +1 time zone if Samara region changes its time into Moscow. Besides there will appear some border regions with 2-hour time lag.

As for the dwellers there is no agreement among them. On the one hand the citizens of the west districts are for the changing because they border with Ulyanovsk and Saratov regions which live at Mocsow time. However, the east districts citizens give the hostile reception to a new initiative as the time lag with Bashkiria and Orenburg region will be 2 hours.

So if Samara region changes the time, firstly, +1 time zone could disappear/ Moreover it will lead to greater energy demands. And at last it will cause the fall of capacity for work.