Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day!

Perhaps the warmest and brightest of all holidays, International Women’s Day on March 8 is celebrated today in all Member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
If we delve a little deeper into history, we will recall that this holiday originally was of quite bellicose and even somewhat militant nature: the first to celebrate Women’s Day were socialist women in the United States who fought for women’s equality.
Incidentally, until 1913, it was celebrated on the last Sunday of February.
The idea to make Women’s Day an international holiday belonged to the famous campaigner for the rights of working women, Clara Zetkin. In August 1910, at the Second International Conference of Working Women, she suggested establishing an international day of protest against the political powerlessness of working women, and making it an annual event. Female workers liked the idea, and it was supported. However, a specific date was not set.
This is why in 1911 the day of solidarity of women for equality was celebrated on March 19 in Austria-Hungary, Germany, Denmark and Switzerland.
In 1913, on March 2, it was held for the first time in Russia, in St Petersburg.
That day, about a thousand St Petersburg women gathered at the Kalashnikov grain exchange, where the ladies signed a petition demanding equal rights for women.
International Women’s Day began to be celebrated on March 8 in 1914. In Russia in the early years of Soviet power the holiday was called International Working Women’s Day, and in the late 1920s it became International Women’s Day.
Today International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8 in all CSTO states. Having lost much of its former fervour; today it is considered a day of spring, female beauty, tenderness, spiritual wisdom and attention to women, regardless of their status or age.
On this day we would like to wish all women, without exception, love, happiness, prosperity and, most importantly, peace.