Thank you for the heads-up.  Do I understand it correctly that Putin signed it into law unchanged?  I.e., no change is needed to the analysis of the draft bill in <http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia65.html>?

To get the ball rolling on this, I installed the obvious patch (attached) to the experimental version of the tz database on github.  Since the clocks don't change until October, I'd like to give people a week or so to look it over, and then generate a new tz release soon after that.  In particular I would like to compare your nice new map against our textual list.

Thanks again.