{"id":664560,"date":"2025-12-31T11:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664560\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:23:10","slug":"in-photos-the-new-years-traditions-of-russias-indigenous-peoples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664560\/","title":{"rendered":"In Photos: The New Year\u2019s Traditions of Russia\u2019s Indigenous Peoples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tCelebrating New Year\u2019s according to the Gregorian calendar is one of the most important holidays for people in Russia today, but that hasn\u2019t always been the case.<\/p>\n<p>Replacing Christmas celebrations marked by the Orthodox majority with secular New Year\u2019s was a vital element of the Soviet secularization efforts. Russia\u2019s Indigenous and minority peoples, too, were swept up in these efforts, with their traditional New Year\u2019s celebrations sidelined, replaced with new holidays or erased completely. <\/p>\n<p>Following the Soviet collapse, Russia\u2019s Indigenous and minority communities made an effort to revive their ancestral traditions of greeting the new year, many of which fall outside the winter season. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a look at some of the Indigenous and minority New Year\u2019s celebrations from across Russia: \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrating New Year\u2019s according to the Gregorian calendar is one of the most important holidays for people in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[3931,51245,26717,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-664560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-indigenous-peoples","9":"tag-new-year","10":"tag-regions","11":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115813928458540811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}