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How many working days in year 2014?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2014 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2014.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. Новы год : Wednesday, 1 January, 2014
2. Новы год : Thursday, 2 January, 2014
3. Каляды праваслаўныя : Tuesday, 7 January, 2014
4. Радунiца : Tuesday, 29 April, 2014
5. Дзень працы : Thursday, 1 May, 2014
6. Дзень Перамогi : Friday, 9 May, 2014
7. Дзень Незалежнасцi : Thursday, 3 July, 2014
8. Дзень Кастрычніцкай рэвалюцыі : Friday, 7 November, 2014
9. Каляды каталiцкiя : Thursday, 25 December, 2014

And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:

1. Мiжнародны жаночы дзень : Saturday, 8 March, 2014