Press Secretary President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin will timely inform about the plans of the head of state Vladimir Putin for Christmas. So he reacted to the rumors about the president’s schedule that appeared on social networks, reports RIA Novosti .
In December, the Kremlin announced Putin’s traditional trip to one of the regions of Russia for Christmas, without specifying where exactly the head of state would go. On January 3, the writer Zakhar Prilepin wrote in his Telegram -channel that this will be the Novgorod region and, presumably, the Church of St. Nicholas on Lipna.
In 2016, Putin and the then Prime Minister came to the Church of St. Nicholas on Lipna, an Orthodox church of the late 13th century and a monument of Novgorod architecture. Dmitry Medvedev . At that time, the church had only empty walls, but after the arrival of the country’s top officials, active restoration work began there, the course of which Medvedev subsequently checked personally. The temple is located on the Lipno island in the Msta delta and can only be reached by water or air. In Novgorod press Lipno was referred to as “miracle island” .
For the past three years, Vladimir Putin celebrated Christmas in St. Petersburg, in 2017 in Veliky Novgorod, in 2016 in the Tver region. The President traditionally participates in Christmas services.