Red Square welcomes winter skating
Published: 01 December, 2007, 19:59
For just the second year, a skating rink has been set up in Moscow’s Red Square. It will be open until March in what organisers hope will become a long tradition.
Last year a million skaters took to the ice in the shadow of the Kremlin, but this season even more are expected.
On the same day Russia's Northern Capital, Saint-Petersburg, unveiled its own skating rink, the biggest in Europe, right in the Palace Square next to the Hermitage.
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