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People bath in Moskva river in Moscow

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-01-19 09:38

A woman and child step out of the Moskva river after bathing during a ritual baptism ceremony in Moscow January 19, 2007. Orthodox Russians indulged on Friday in the annual Epiphany tradition of diving into blessed water, only this year instead of digging a hole into the ice as normally during Russia's severe winter, bathers shivered in rainy weather as temperatures hit a seasonal record high. [Reuters]