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Nationalists call to boycott St Valentine’s Day, praise Russia’s own holiday

Nationalists call to boycott St Valentine’s Day, praise Russia’s own holiday The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia is asking businesses to stop using St. Valentine’s Day for marketing purposes, opting instead for the Orthodox holiday of St. Peter and Fevronia, which falls on July 8. MP Aleksey Didenko has addressed the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs with a letter asking them to abstain from referring to Valentine’s Day in their advertising campaigns as this leads to “excessive popularization” of the occasion that, in his opinion, is alien to the Russian people. Didenko noted in his message that celebrating Valentine’s… View Article