{"id":17387,"date":"2015-01-07T09:11:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=17387"},"modified":"2015-01-07T09:11:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T07:11:07","slug":"russians-celebrate-christmas-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=17387","title":{"rendered":"Russians celebrate Christmas today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian Orthodox Christians celebrate\u00a0Christmas today.<\/p>\n

This year, the Russian president Vladimir Putin celebrated the holiday in Russia\u2019s Otradnoye village near the southern city of Voronezh, where he attended a Christmas service at a local church.<\/p>\n

The Russian Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar and celebrates Christmas on January 7.<\/p>\n

The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in the Otradnoye village, accommodating some 450 people, was crowded during the Christmas Eve service.<\/p>\n

Putin sent his greetings to the congregation and personally thanked Archpriest Gennady Zaridze, the rector of the church, who helped to restore the building and open a church-run orphanage.<\/p>\n

The church in Otradnoye is among the country\u2019s cultural heritage sites. Construction work began in 1893 and lasted eight years. In 1930, the church was closed and used as a grain storage facility. The restoration began only in 1991.<\/p>\n

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Russian Christmas card from 1912, before the Red Revolution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian Orthodox Christians celebrate\u00a0Christmas today. This year, the Russian president Vladimir Putin celebrated the holiday in Russia\u2019s Otradnoye village near the southern city of Voronezh, where he attended a Christmas service at a local church. The Russian Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar and celebrates Christmas on January 7. The Church of the Intercession of … Continue reading “Russians celebrate Christmas today”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[10825,8781,66],"class_list":["post-17387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-julian-calendar","tag-orthodox-church","tag-russia"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17389,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387\/revisions\/17389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}