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If you are either in Russia yourself, or interact with Russian customers or users, you will need to ensure your time zone data has been updated before the changes go into effect on October 26th, 2014. If you are scheduling future events in Russian time zones, you may need the updates even sooner.

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Russia currently uses eleven standard time zones, which are shown on the picture below. Russia previously utilized nine standard time zones, but effective October 26, 2014 Russia ended year round daylight saving time and also add two new time zones. Russia's Federation Council voted to reverse the decree of Russia President Dmitry Medvedev issued in 2011 that put Russia on daylight saving time year round. Russia ended daylight saving time on October 26, 2014 at 2:00 AM Moscow Time at which time clocks in most of Russia were turned back one hour. At this time there are no provisions for Russia to resume daylight saving time in 2015.

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In 1884, international officials agreed to divide the map of the earth's surface into 24 time zones.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Russia

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Some districts switched from Magadan time to Vladivostok time.

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Although the Russian government wants to reduce the number of time zones even further, there have been protests in far-eastern Russia on the recent changes, including protests and a 20,000-strong petition in support of Kamchatka returning to UTC+12.(12

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On 28 March 2010, the  changes were introduced, which, in particular, led to abolition of two of the eleven time zones.