I very jealous to You! In ex-USSR people are very cynical and predominently driven by Greed :(mortar_guy78 wrote: The Church that I was attending in Alaska had many Russian members, so even though we celebrated in English sometimes the responses were in Russian. Most of the Orthodox Churches in the US celebrate in English, but some still use Greek, Russian, Arabic, etc. depending on their ethnic makeup.
Of course, there are a few respected public figures! The most powerfull is Head of Russian Ortodox Church Kirill.
I want to express to you my deepest admiration for your decision to sustain memory about first european discoverers of ALASKA!