Russian propagandists show personal Christmas liturgy arranged for Putin
On Christmas, Putin attended a service, presumably in the Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, where, except for him and the priest, there were no other parishioners
The footage with the Russian leader was shown by the Russia 1 TV channel, the Interfax reports.
The news agency notes that the president attended the service alone. He was met by hieromonk Joseph.
Interfax also tells about where Putin celebrated the previous religious holidays.
Putin regularly visits churches during major church holidays. At the same time, on Easter he is more often in Moscow, in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, and Christmas usually meets outside the capital.
Until now, the head of state has stayed in Moscow on January 7 only twice: in 2001, he attended a service in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, and in 2000, he attended a festive service in the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on the Vorobyovy Gory (Sparrow Hills).
In 2022, the head of the Russian state attended the Christmas service at the Church of the Saviour in his residence Novo-Ogarevo.
At the same time, Interfax writes that "last year, the president attended the Christmas service in the unique island church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which can only be reached by boat or in winter by ice.
In 2020 and 2019, Putin came for Christmas to the Transfiguration Cathedral of St. Petersburg, where he was baptized as a child.
In 2018, the Russian leader celebrated Christmas in the Church of the Saints and Righteous Simeon the God-receiver and Anna the Prophetess on Mokhovaya Street in St. Petersburg,
In 2017 - in the St. Yury Monastery of Veliky Novgorod. In 2016 - in the Church of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Turginovo, Tver region, where his parents were baptized. He also came there for Christmas in 2011.
In different years, Putin also attended Christmas services in churches in Sochi, in Selyshche, Kostroma region, in the village of Solomyanoye in Karelia, in Veliky Ustyug.
In 2006, Putin celebrated Christmas in a church in Yakutsk, where it was 50 degrees below zero.
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