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heurifk | 5 years ago

I suspect this is to deter Russians from coming home for the Orthodox Easter which is way more important than in the West.

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krasin|5 years ago

I am a Russian living abroad. I know literally no one coming back to Russia for Easter. It's the first time I even heard of this idea.

Summer or New Year are the times when Russians are more likely to go to visit their relatives and friends.

gambiting|5 years ago

Do you have any idea why that is? Length of travel? Cost of travel? I'm a Pole living abroad and every year I try to go to visit my family for Easter, it seems like a pretty normal thing to do.

tomp|5 years ago

The only reason I got home to Slovenia for Easter is, it's a 4-day-weekend in the UK.

option|5 years ago

same here. what a weird idea

anticodon|5 years ago

This comment shows how little westerners know about Russia and Russians. Easter is of very little importance in Russia, especially for Russians living abroad.

For religious Russians abroad there are Orthodox churches in almost every country, even in Thailand and Cambodia.