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Although local officials across Russia have been accused of illegally blocking the reregistration of minority religious groups, Russian religion law specialist Lauren Homer believes that this case is not typical. "I don't think it stems as much from abuse (by officials) as a lack of understanding as to what these people are up to," she told Newsroom, referring to the church's charismatic practices. "(The Apostle) Paul said about praying in tongues that if you do it in front of strangers they will think you are nuts; and they do."
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Russia is a land of white snow and lethal winters, but ... of rivers that ramble across the meadows and a midsummer sun that never sets. Its people, in the words of a Russian proverb, 'love to suffer', yet they also love to party and can be disarmingly openhanded and welcoming.
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The holiday system in Russia is extremely strange. There are only a handful of non-Russians who can understand it. Actually, winter is one big holiday and it is always winter. Russians start drinking straight vodka in the middle of December and begin trying to stop when February comes. Spring, summer and fall are ... holidays, similiar to winter in that it is customary to drink through all of them, which is hard since they do not exist in Russia. The Russian people, being the geniuses they are, came up with the creative solution of drinking four times as much during winter (the rest of the year) to make up for it.
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Few people in Russia remember, but when the communists took power in 1917 they banned the open expression of religion. While it was easy to pray at home, the Russian people were concerned about giving up their traditional Christmas celebration.
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Russia drastically changed upon the announcement of Catholic Church acknowlegement of the existence of little dots. It ... experienced another paradigm shift when people realized that Russia, big as it, was not a continent, and that Caspian Sea not filled with cream cheese.
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