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In ex USSR we celebrate New Year. So the first several years of remote work with Western folks, I was always surprised to see no colleagues some day in December
by culebron21 3y ago
In ex USSR we celebrate New Year. So the first several years of remote work with Western folks, I was always surprised to see no colleagues some day in December. Only later in the evening, I would remember they had Christmas that day. :)
Merry Christmas!
- cperciva 3y agoDon't forget Old New Year!
- timeon 3y ago> Western folks I'm from Eastern Europe and we celebrate already on 24th.
- culebron21 3y agoI know, it depends on whether the churches are on Gregorian or Julian calendar.
- mantas 3y agoAnd not everybody in ex-USSR were on the old calendar.
- rpmisms 3y agoWho wasn't? I guess Cechnya?
- mantas 3y agoEstonia/Latvia/Lithuania and other catholic and protestant communities.
- throwaw33333434 3y agoGreek Catholic and for the first time Ukraine.
- rpmisms 3y agoThere's quite a few Uniates on the old calendar, though.
- mantas 3y agoYes. But Lithuanian and Latvian are Catholics are Roman and protestants in all three are on new calendar (not sure if any protestants use old calendar at all?). And not all catholics outside of baltic states were unites. E.g. western Belarus and western Ukraine has some Roman Catholics. IIRC there’re some Roman Catholic islands inside RF too, but they are tiny. Probably mostly artifacts of forced resettling in Soviet or tsarist eras.
- skinkestek 3y agoI understand Ukrainians celebrate Christmas officially now for the first time. (If I understand correctly last year it was some kind of transition.)
- culebron21 3y agoThey did celebrate it before, but on January 7th (which on Julian calendar is December 25th, because it lags 14 days). This year their Orthodox church switched to Gregorian calendar.
- skinkestek 3y agoYes, agree. Sorry for the confusion, "now" in my comment above was ment to refer to the current time, i.e. the 26. or 27. (or whenever I wrote that comment).
- bjord 3y agooh wow, this is the first time I've seen someone else in almaty on hn
- kome 3y agoAlmaty is such an incredible city!
- culebron21 3y agoThank you! Have you visited it as a tourist?
- plastic_bag 3y agoNot the original poster, but I visited Almaty and Shymkent in Kazakhstan this summer. I met a lot of nice and warm Kazakh people. Would love to visit Almaty again and explore other parts of the country this time.
- underdeserver 3y agoS Novim Godom!