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Christmas for every day

To find the best Russian holiday ornaments, take a trip to Klin and visit the Klinskoye Podvorye Museum
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Not least among Russian traditions that Westerners find odd is Christmas - it comes 13 days late, "Santa" doesn't live in the North Pole and you wait until midnight on New Year's to hear...the President! RBTH tries to explain some of the peculiarities about winter holidays in Russia...

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It’s a child’s world

December 28, 2011 Elena Danilovich, Moskovskiye Novosti

Easy, fashionable looks in for 2012

December 28, 2011 Alyona Samarina

All I want for New Year

December 27, 2011 Yelena Barysheva, The Ogoniok magazine

Preparing for the holiday season

December 24, 2011 Inna Leonova, Diana Laarz

Grandfather Frost cashes in

December 21, 2011 Olga Dmitrieva, Inna Leonova, Alexandra Guzeva

Hope your New Year's was okay

January 3, 2011 Nora FitzGerald

The Irony of Russian Fate, or Happy New Year!

December 29, 2010 Svetlana Smetanina

Companies focus on charity in holiday gifts

December 27, 2010 Nikolaus von Twickel, Howard Amos and Justin Lifflander, the Moscow Times

And so, is this Christmas?

December 15, 2010 Jennifer Eremeeva, special to Russia Now

Reveling in Russian Santa’s fairytale home

December 15, 2010 Phoebe Taplin, special to Russia Now

Always winter, never Christmas

December 14, 2010 Jennifer Eremeeva, special to Russia Now

It's Just Some Holiday

February 2, 2010 Svetlana Smetanina
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