Here are some of the images from RFE/RL's broadcast region as Orthodox Christians around the world mark Christmas on January 7.
Orthodox Mark Christmas Holiday
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The Christmas service at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow.
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People hold hands during a Christmas celebration after an Orthodox service in the village of Sosnovka, near the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek.
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Burning Yule logs and fireworks are seen in front of the Sokolica church on Orthodox Christmas eve, in Ravna Romanija, in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Belarusian security forces take part in a service near an Orthodox church at a military base in Minsk.
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A woman lights a candle at a Christmas Mass in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
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Georgian flags fly outside the Trinity Cathedral during Christmas Mass in Tbilisi.
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A woman lights a candle during the Orthodox Christmas Eve mass at St. Volodymir Cathedral, in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
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In Cetinje, Montenegro, a Yule log symbol is burned on Christmas Eve.
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An Orthodox priest leads Christmas Eve Mass at the Aleksandr Nevsky Cathedral in the Crimean city of Simferopol.
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People attend a ceremonial burning of dried oak branches, a Yule log symbol, for Orthodox Christmas Eve in front of a church in Smederevo, 60 kilometers east of Belgrade, Serbia.
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Ukraine -- Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (2nd L) and his wife Maryna (3rd L) meet with traditional Christmas carol singers at a state residence in the settlement of Huta in Ivano-Frankivsk region, western Ukraine, January 6, 2015
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Christmas Mass in Bishkek