Posted on 11/05/2013 5:56:12 AM PST by marshmallow
ST. PETERSBURG, November 4 (RIA Novosti) – About 54,000 people joined a religious procession in the heart of Russia’s second largest city St. Petersburg on Monday, a city police spokesman said.
“No violations of public order took place during the event,” the spokesman said.
The procession began half an hour later than scheduled due to large number of believers willing to take part.
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Is Dr. Zhivago out there, on the streets? Ah, Russia, goes from extreme orthodoxy to Communism and back to extreme orthodoxy, it only took them 100 years...
Russians rediscovering their roots —that’s all.
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