Let's Celebrate!

In Russia, the Christmas / New Year period is a wonderful holiday season. Some Russians (not the majority) start celebrating Christmas on December 25 (together with the Western World), then spend a long night eating, drinking and swapping gifts with family and friends on New Year's Eve, and, finally, celebrate Russian Orthodox Christmas on January 7.

Although Christmas is widely celebrated in Russia and leaders of the nation attend televised church services, a substantial part of the nation treats Christmas as just another holiday, somewhat inferior to New Year's Eve/Day.