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Other Russian Christmas attributes and traditions, such as gift-giving, Ded Moroz's visits and Christmas decorations, lost their religious significance and became associated with New Year's celebrations, which were secular in nature. [6] In 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Christmas was reinstated alongside other religious holidays.
People can buy "Yolka" balls, knitted mittens, traditional Russian decorations and food from Russia, regions under Russian influence and generally popular Christmas food such as Bavarian sausages or Russian blinchiki. A circular "battery" of counters has been set up in the center, where they sell Balloons, going from 500 up to 1,000 rubles.
Koročun or Kračun was a pre-Christian Slavic holiday. It was considered the day when the progenitor deity (usually Veles ) and other spirits associated with darkness were most potent. The first recorded usage of the term was in 1143, when the author of the Novgorod First Chronicle referred to the winter solstice as "Koročun".
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In July 1995, the privately owned Vermont company, Russian Information Services, Inc., purchased all rights to Russian Life. Initially published as a monthly, the magazine soon settled into a bimonthly schedule. RIS has published well over 100 issues of Russian Life since 1995. Today the magazine is a 64-page colour bi-monthly magazine, with ...
Vladimir Putin with Russian religious leaders during Unity Day on 4 November 2015 Unity Day (День народного единства, Den narodnogo edinstva ) was first celebrated on 4 November 2005, commemorating the popular uprising led by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky which ended the Polish occupation of Moscow in November 1612, and ...
Holy Trinity, Hospitality of Abraham; by Andrei Rublev; c. 1411; tempera on panel; 1.1 x 1.4 m (4 ft 8 in x 3 ft 8 3 ⁄ 4 in); Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow). Russian icons represent a form of religious art that developed in Eastern Orthodox Christianity after Kievan Rus' adopted the faith from the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire in AD 988. [1]