Re-installation didn't help.
The "/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Novosibirsk" is just a text file
containing string
Asia/Novosibirsk
I had to copy the corresponding latest file from Ubuntu 18.04 udoate,
where it's not broken.
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- wget
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/2019a-0ubuntu0.16.04/+build/16645006/+files/tzdata_2019a-0ubuntu0.16.04_all.deb
- dpkg-deb -x tzdata_2019a-0ubuntu0.16.04_all.deb dir
- looking to the file extracted the corresponding line is
'RU +5502+08255
