A doctor reminded how to properly immerse oneself during Epiphany.

On January 19, all Orthodox Christians celebrate the Baptism of the Lord. On that day church services are held and the water is blessed. But the clergy consider plunging into an ice hole without taking part in the services or receiving communion a popular pastime.

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Details have emerged about the murder of a man found with a bag over his head. Details have emerged about the murder of 47-year-old Ilya Odushev, whose body was found with a bag over his head in the area of the Shartash Forest Park in Yekaterinburg. The man went missing on January 6 after leaving for a store and stopped making contact. A festival of authentic Ural cuisine is taking place in Yekaterinburg. The Authentic Ural Cuisine Festival (AUK) is taking place in the Urals for the fifth time. This year, 60 establishments from 11 cities are taking part in the "Feast of the Belly." A minor will be tried by a military court in Yekaterinburg for preparing a terrorist attack on the Sverdlovsk Railway. The Ural Transport Prosecutor’s Office has referred to court a criminal case concerning the preparation to commit a terrorist act on the Sverdlovsk Railway, the press service of the supervisory authority reports. The State Traffic Inspectorate announced the number of fatalities on roads in the Sverdlovsk Region during the New Year's holidays. The State Traffic Inspectorate of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region, on the first working day after the long New Year holidays, summed up its work over those days. About 400 traffic police officers ensured road traffic safety each day, said the head of the Road Safety Promotion Department, Police Captain Galina Kravchenko. The commission did not admit New People and the LDPR to the contest for the position of mayor of Yekaterinburg. Following the second stage of the competition, the commission reviewing candidates for the post of head of Yekaterinburg recommended that Sverdlovsk Oblast Governor Denis Pasler submit four candidates to the Yekaterinburg City Duma for consideration and did not give its approval to two. In Sverdlovsk Oblast, an infant suffocated in his sleep because of his father. In the Shalinsky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, an infant suffocated in his sleep while sleeping next to his father. A criminal case was opened against the man on a charge of causing death by negligence.