MOSCOW, March 06, 2008 Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) presents information on how Russians are going to celebrate March 8 and what they are planning to do on this occasion.The overwhelming majority of Russians (87%) consider March 8 to be their personal holiday. Only 10% of respondents disagree with them. This distribution of estimations has stayed approximately the same for the last three years. 91% of women think of the holiday as theirs, and… even the majority of men do (82%).Nearly half of Russians (45%) are planning on celebrating the holiday at a festive table at home; this type of spending the day was the most widespread in 2005-2007 when 49-51% mentioned this sort of plans for the holiday. The second place in the popularity list of how to spend March 8 belongs to making visits (18%). Respondents less often plan on going to restaurants, clubs, discos; theatres, concerts, movie theatres; going to the country (1-3% for each of the options). 18% of respondents did not yet know at the time of the survey how they would be spending the holiday and 9% were not going to celebrate it at all.The youth aged 18 to 24 years are as a rule more likely to spend the time more actively as the older respondents would. 22% in the youth group want to stay at home (42% to 55% of respondents in other age groups). 40% of the youth (cf.: only 12% of respondents in the 60+ group) would like to go to a restaurant, club or a disco to celebrate the holiday. Moreover, the share of those who have not yet made up their minds as to where to celebrate March 8 is again higher among the youth group than in other age groups (26% and 13%).The most popular present that the respondents are planning to give the beloved women on March 8 are flowers (40%). Those going to give souvenirs, greeting cards, purses, etc. as presents are also quite numerous (31%), other respondents will buy sweets (26%), perfume, make-up articles, costume jewellery (22%), toys (10%). Respondents less often make more expensive presents, such as jewellery, clothes, shoes, household appliances (3-5% for each option). 6% of respondents are planning just to give money, just as many respondents want to do some work about the house. 11% are not willing to give anything to anyone as a present on this day.The share of respondents thinking to give flowers on this occasion has grown in 2007 if compared with the data obtained in 2006, however, it fell again in 2008 (increase from 38% up to 47% and then decrease down to 40%). A similar situation can be observed in the case with sweets (18%, 31%, 26%) and toys (9%, 14% and 9%). The initiative All-Russia opinion poll was conducted by VCIOM on February 23-24, 2008. 1600 respondents were interviewed each time in 153 population areas of 46 regions of Russia. The statistical error does not exceed 3.4%.