World celebrates International Women's Day

International Women's Day is being celebrated on March 8th all over the world. Women’s achievements, regardless of ethnic or national boundaries, in linguistics, cultural, economic and political fields are being marked.

The first idea of the International Women's Day appeared at the beginning of the 20th century.

The first National Women's Day was marked in accordance with the decision of the Socialist Party of America throughout the United States on February 28th in 1909. US Women continued to celebrate this day in the last Sunday of February until 1913.

The 8th of March is the International Women's Day solidarity in the struggle for economic, political and social equality. The decision to celebrate International Women's Day was made at the suggestion of Clara Zetkin at the second International Conference of Socialist Women in 1910 in Copenhagen. For the first time it was celebrated in 1911 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Denmark, where meetings were attended by over one million men and women. In addition to the right to vote and hold public offices, they demanded women's right for work, professional training, as well as absence of discrimination in the workplace, RIA Novosti reports.

Russian women marked the first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February 1913 as part of the peace movement, which appeared on the threshold of the World War I. And in 1914 women held rallies on March 8th in other European countries in solidarity with their sisters.

In 1917, the Russian women decided to hold a strike with an appeal "for bread and peace’’. They chose the last Sunday in February once again, March 8th according to the Julian calendar in Russia.

The holiday was marked in Azerbaijan in 1917 for the first time. Until 1914 it was celebrated in different days, and the tradition of the celebration of International Women's Day on March 8th became a tradition after it started to be celebrated in a number of countries.

International Women's Day is a national holiday in several other countries: Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Zambia, Kenya, Korea, Madagascar, Mongolia, Uganda and Eritrea.

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated women on International Women's Day, and noted that women bring goodness and beauty, light and hope into the world.

The Russian President expressed special gratitude to the women of the war generation. "Your fortitude and feats taught us to be real men and win in spite of all difficulties,’’ President Vladimir Putin said.

Vestnik Kavkaza congratulates all women on International Women's Day and wishes good health, happiness, success and spring mood to all our beloved mothers, wives, sisters, grandmothers, daughters and granddaughters!