Russian group wants to have a "National Toilet Day" in the country

A Russian organisation has argued that there should be a National Toilet Day to boost the country's worldwide lavatorial standing to its pre-revolutionary levels. According to AFP, the public toilets in the capital Moscow have been the subject of much criticism.

Vladimir Moksunov, head of the Russian association of lavatory manufacturers, said: "Before the revolution of 1917 the quality of toilets in Russia was the best of the world.

"But now we do not even have official regulations for the quality of public toilets except a document from 1972 that talks about cesspits."

He has proposed accompanying the international world toilet day on November 19 with a separate national occasion on April 9. Russian monarch Peter the Great published a decree on that date in 1699 making it a punishable offence to dump sewage into the street.


/Digital Spy/