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share Print As part of an occasional series on how the end-of-year holidays are celebrated in our broadcast region, we talked to Irina Lagunina from RFE/RL s Russian Service about seasonal traditions in her country. Western visitors to Russia at this time of year may be surprised to discover that the locals usually refer to the seasonally decorated conifers you see everywhere as New Year firs or New Year spruces. So why would they call them this when they re commonly known as Christmas trees in many other places? According to Irina Lagunina from RFE/RL s Russian Service, it s largely a quirky legacy of the country s Soviet past.

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