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Russia to celebrate Christianization as official holiday
Published: 26 May, 2010, 21:51
Edited: 28 July, 2010, 22:01
TAGS: Anniversary, Religion, Russia, Prime Time Russia
A new date of religious and historic importance has been added to Russia’s list of official holidays.
Christianization Day will be celebrated on July 28 when the Russian Orthodox Church commemorates Grand Prince Vladimir.
Baptized in 988 at Cherson, Vladimir returned to Kiev (capital of the Slavs’ state at the time), destroyed pagan monuments and converted his people to Orthodox Christianity.
The move had immense political, social and cultural significance for the country, which had been virtually torn apart by the rich variety of pagan beliefs.
In addition to Christianization Day, Russia celebrated another nine memorial dates. Among then are the Day of Russian Students (January 25), Cosmonautics Day (April 12), the Day of Memory and Mourning (the day when the Great Patriotic War began, June 22), Day of Guerillas and Cryptos (June 29), Day of Solidarity in Fighting with Terrorism (September 3), Day of the October Revolution 1917 (November 7), Day of Motherland’s Heroes (December 9), and Day of the Constitution of the Russian Federation (December 12).
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Great, but as Prince Vladimir did, Russia should also destroy it's pagan idols, the wax dummy in the mausoleum and and rest of the bolshevik rubbish (hammer and sickle, red star and the return of streets and town names to the real heroes of Russia) polluting Russia. Oh yeah, and celebrate October 1917? that would be like having lunch in the toilet you can't mix the sacred and profane.
This is counterproductive move and most certainly it will generate new hostility among Russian large Muslim population. I do not do the PR for the Russian state decision makers but this decision was ill conceived. I do hope it does not become a national official Holiday. Of course, the Church can mark this important date but the Russian state should stay out of it.
Yuri, Today’s Russia is still living off the sweat and tears of the Soviet Times! Just look at what is happening to the country, its healthcare system, population density, education and military stature. The revival of religion will appeal to the masses but it will sow new seeds of discontent for a complex country such as Russia. Let Russia go this way and I can reasonably predict that Russia will soon turn into another "Born again Christian country" like the United States South. I am not Russia but I love this country and I can see how wrong headed is this nostalgia for "the old Russia".