The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, attended an Orthodox church Christmas service by himself inside a Kremlin cathedral on Saturday. State television showed two live clips of Putin inside the gilded Cathedral of the Annunciation as Orthodox priests conducted the midnight service, known as the Divine Liturgy. The 70-year-old also attended Christmas by himself last year at his official Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow. 
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