Red Square welcomes winter skating

For just the second year, a skating rink has been set up in Moscow’s Red Square. It will be open until March in what organisers hope will become a long tradition.

Last year a million skaters took to the ice in the shadow of the Kremlin, but this season even more are expected.

On the same day Russia's Northern Capital, Saint-Petersburg, unveiled its own skating rink, the biggest in Europe, right in the Palace Square next to the Hermitage.