However local emergency services in some regions cancelled events, saying it was too hazardous for worshippers to cut bathing ...

Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day of Epiphany, where worshippers bathe in the icy waters of ...

Orthodox Christians in Russia marked the ... Ceremonies were cancelled in areas as distant as the southern Russian region of Saratov to Karelia, almost 1,600 kilometres away on the country ...

Men exit a pond after plunging themselves in icy waters to celebrate the Orthodox Epiphany at ... in areas as distant as the southern Russian region of Saratov and Karelia, almost 1000 miles ...

MOSCOW — Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day ... canceled in areas as distant as the southern Russian region of Saratov and Karelia, almost 1000 miles away on ...