Happy Double New Year and Merry Christmas
Whilst our celebrations for the new year begin in earnest today and culminate at midnight tonight, spare a thought for the poor Russians (and ex-Russian nations) who bear the burden of a fourteen day, double New Year celebration.
Their celebrations begin tonight on the thirty first of December, the New Year of the Gregorian Calendar and continue through to the fourteenth of January, which is the New Year of the Julian Calendar.
And don’t forget that the Eastern Orthodox traditions have Christmas to celebrate in-between, on the 7th January, in accordance with the Julian calendar.
Poor souls….
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