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Quote Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
Chalk this down as a linguistic misunderstanding!

The great thing about being a foreigner in Russia is to be able to celebrate christmas 3 times!
Why 3 times? Do you take into account New Year? If not, I can't work out what the third Christmas is. The first one's December 25, the second - January 7. Third?
4 times! Don't forget about Old New Year!
Well, having added in Old New Year, we really have 4 different Christmases.
Frankly, Christmas has very little to do with New Year. New Year signifies the end of the year and Christmas is basically a religious holiday which is in hardly any relation to the end of the year.
Even if we take into account the fact that English speakers might refer to New Year in the same way as to Christmas, we're still Russians and have our own traditions and two different words for Christmas and New Year.
No there is a huge difference in Xmas and New year.

And what does this mean? :
Your words were... khm, ambiguous.
The khm part