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Video. WATCH: Russian village prepares to celebrate Orthodox Easter

People from the village of Karizha in central Russia, gathered on Holy Saturday to celebrate the Eucharist and took communion at the 18th-century Orthodox church. 

People from the village of Karizha in central Russia, gathered on Holy Saturday to celebrate the Eucharist and took communion at the 18th-century Orthodox church. 

They expressed their hopes for "the end of the war", with the archpriest of the church saying that "the people of both Ukraine and Russia need compassion".