A woman shopping for flowers Monday. Women's Day is on Wednesday. Traffic police across the country will give a free pass to women drivers who commit minor traffic violations on Wednesday in honor of International Women's Day, a senior police official in Russia said Monday. "Traffic policemen will not darken the holiday for 'driverettes,'" Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Chekalin said at a news conference. "On this spring day, representatives of the fair sex will not be punished for minor traffic violations." Traffic police in some regions already have a tradition of letting women drivers get away with infractions on the March 8 holiday, Chekalin said. "In some places they congratulate the women drivers, and in other places they even give them small presents such as festive postcards with the traffic police insignia or small bouquets of flowers," he said. This year, traffic police in Nizhny Novgorod and Krasnodar will present women they pull over with flowers rather than traffic tickets, RIA-Novosti and Interfax reported. (Agencies)

俄罗斯一高级警官周一称，为庆祝国际妇女节，全国交警会在周三对犯有轻微违章行为的女司机开绿灯。  "交警们将不会让女司机度过一个郁闷的节日，"内务部第一副部长亚历山大·契卡林在一次新闻发布会上说，"作为女性的代表，她们在这个春光明媚的日子里，是不会因轻微违章行为而被罚款的。" 契卡林说，一些地区已有这样的惯例，即在3月8日节日这天，交警们不会处罚违反交通法规的女司机。 他还说 ："有些地方的交警会向女司机道贺，还有一些地方，交警们甚至会给女驾驶员赠送一些小礼物，诸如印有交通警徽的节日明信片或小束鲜花。 今年，在诺夫哥罗德和克拉斯诺达尔两地，被交警拦下的女司机将会得到鲜花而不是交通罚单。 (中国日报网站编译)