Officials in two Russian regions said public bodies won't be holding New Year's parties this year, with the money going to ...

The Orthodox New Year is not a federal public holiday but it may be a regional or non-official holiday limited to regional areas or religious groups in countries such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...

The Russian Orthodox Church did not recognize these ... People’s Commissars prohibited Christmas celebrations. Official New Year parties were also outlawed, only to be revived in the 1930s.

TASS/. Orthodox Christians in Russia and other countries around the world are celebrating Christmas on January 6-7, an event which 2,024 years ago marked the beginning of the new history of mankind.

The Orthodox New Year is widely known as the Old New Year ... or from the largest Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church. This synod synchronized the new calendar with the Gregorian calendar ...