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Russian Orthodox Epiphany 2016

Moscow, Russia, 18/01/2016.
An Emergency Situations worker reaches out to a young boy being held in the water as Orthodox Christian believers celebrate Epiphany at a lake in southern Moscow. Priests blessed the waters and followers baptised themselves by total immersion in the freezing lake in temperatures of minus 11C.

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Moscow, Russia, 18/01/2016.<br />
An Emergency Situations worker reaches out to a young boy being held in the water as Orthodox Christian believers celebrate Epiphany at a lake in southern Moscow. Priests blessed the waters and followers baptised themselves by total immersion in the freezing lake in temperatures of minus 11C.