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I don't know. Please have this Russian comic strip

http://habrastorage.org/storage1/9882fe1c/28be61de/5ec00a27/...

(Programmer is working. / Programmer is celebrating the programmers' day)

хорошо... каждый день, день программиста (I have no idea if that's right, but I was playing with google translate)

Replace "," with "—", and you got it right.

> Any Russians want to tell us whether this holiday has any meaning to the ordinary Russians?

No.

[UPD]: Disambiguation: this holiday has no meaning to the ordinary Russians.

Not much (as any other professional day - reclamation expert's day, railwayman's day, etc), but we're working on it!

Just to clarify: it's an official Programmer's Day today in Russia, but it's not a day off. There are all kinds of X's Day-s for many values of X there.