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12.08.2007 - Russian Air Force celebrates 95th anniversary
Russia's military aviation force was set up 95 years ago, on August 12, 1912, when the military department by its order put an aircraft unit into service.
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18.07.2007 - Russian Fire-Fighting Service marks its 80th anniversary
The Russian Fire-Fighting Service marks its 80th anniversary. July 18, 1927 is regarded as its birthday when the government of the Russian Federation approved “Regulations on the state fire-fighting service” which formalised legislatively for the first time the service’s basic functions.
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07.05.2007 - Russia radio marks 112th anniversary
Russia marks on Monday Radio Day, professional holiday of those who have devoted their lives to the sphere of information technologies and communications.
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12.04.2007 - Russia Celebrates Cosmonautics Day
April 12 is the Cosmonautics Day in Russia. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yury Gagarin became the first human in space, making an orbital flight in his Vostok spacecraft.
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27.02.2007 - Felt boots: rustic? No, a fashion statement!
Gatchina, one of the former suburban Royal residences near St. Petersburg and the seat of a felt boot factory, premiered a show-and French, German and Russian fashion houses showered the company with orders for fancy exclusive items.
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24.02.2007 - February 23 - Fatherland Defender Day
Russia on Saturday, February 23, is celebrating Fatherland Defender Day – the modern version of what in the Soviet era was the Red Army and Navy Day. Since 2002 the date has been a public holiday and a day off
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20.02.2007 - Russia Orthodox believers enter period of Lent
Orthodox Christians enter the period of the great fast on Monday. Patriarch of Moscow and All-Russia Alexy II will administer the first lenten service - Andrei Kritsky’s canon of repentance, at the Christ the Savoir Cathedral in the evening.
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13.01.2007 - Russian journalists celebrate professional holiday
Russian journalists on Saturday are marking their professional holiday – Russian Press Day, an occasion celebrated annually on the day Russia’s first periodical – Vedomosti – was founded in 1703 by Czar Peter the Great.
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07.01.2007 - Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas
The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas Day on January 7, in line with the old Julian calendar.
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26.12.2006 - Russia’s Catholics celebrate Christmas
All Catholic temples in Russia performed Christmas masses on Sunday night. The head of Russian Catholics, Archbishop Tadeus Kondrusiewicz, delivers the overnight service at the Catholic Cathedral in the Malaya Gruzinskaya Street of Moscow.
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