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Holy crap!!! Do they start celebrating Student's Day that early in Ostrog, or haven't they finished the previous one? No wonder I see ~no1_knows_me~'s eye twitching. :D
Everything's normal, we celebrate, all on time and several times a year =))
http://www.calend.ru/holidays/0/0/1545/
Student's Day in Ukraine has been celebrated since 1999. The holiday was established by a Decree of President Leonid Kuchma in "support of the initiative of the student youth of Ukraine."
And worldwide, today is International Students' Day, which was established on November 17, 1946, at the World Congress of Students in Prague in memory of the massacre of Czech patriotic students.
According to official statistics, in 1990 there were 891 higher education institutions operating in Ukraine. At the start of the 2008-2009 academic year, the country had 881 universities (including 528 institutions of I-II accreditation levels and 353 of III-IV levels). The total number of students in Ukrainian universities was 2,763,800.
Hundreds of thousands more students study in technical schools, colleges, and vocational schools.
