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Many Russians are only now re-learning Christmas: There was no official Christmas holiday in Russia between 1925 and 1992. |
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In Russian Baptist circles, worship teams and Christian pop have not yet dispatched mixed choirs and string quartets into oblivion. |
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In a letter addressed to Kirill, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, on the day after the assassination of a priest, Yuri Sipko, President of the RUECB, appealed for joint efforts and prayer to “break the negative tendencies cropping up recently in our society”. |
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