Today Christmas is celebrated in the Russian Orthodox calendar. Presents were exchanged on New Years Eve/New Years Day, so today is more of a religious event. Earlier today I listened to a particularly edifying speech from Patriarch Kirill, the Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus'
http://lenta.ru/news/2012/01/07/patriarch/
Today's photo then, appropriately, is of one of the local churches. It is, unusually in this day and age, a wooden structure but it is still a working church.
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