The Christmas season in Romania begins on December 6, on Saint Nicholas’s day, and ends on January 7, with the celebration of Saint John. Despite the Orthodox population, they celebrate Christmas on December 25 instead of January 6.
As part of an occasional series on how the end-of-year holidays are observed in our broadcast region, we talked to Eugen Tomiuc from RFE/RL's Central Newsroom about the way Christmas is celebrated in Romania.