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LIPNO ISLAND (Sputnik) – Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered this yr’s Orthodox Christmas greetings to the individuals from the Saint Nicholas Church on Lipno Island close to the western Russian metropolis of Veliky Novgorod on Thursday. Putin traveled to the Novgorod area on Wednesday.
“The Lord’s love for individuals is just not in that he fulfills all our asks and desires, however in that he lets us pray for him, for us and for the hope for the very best. It’s this hope, and generally the anticipation of a miracle, that lightens our life path and helps us within the hardest of occasions. Merry Christmas!” Putin stated in a televised tackle following a church service.
Within the earlier two years, in addition to in 2012, the Russian president delivered Orthodox Christmas public greetings from the Transfiguration Cathedral in St. Petersburg, the place he had been baptised as an toddler.
Putin has already visited the Lipno Saint Nicholas Church in September 2016 along with Dmitry Medvedev, who again then served as Russia’s prime minister.