Like I said earlier, Christmas seemed pretty subdued. There were, however, a lot of people out on the streets, and at the big park there were stands set up with Christmas scenes (like that here) where people were having their photographs taken. There were also armies of those little plastic cars with motors that little Moldovan kids were using to ride all over the place - a special Christmas treat. Incidentally, the language in the capital is Romanian, so I am back in non-cyrillic land again, as you can see in the display here.

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Chisinau, Orthodox Christmas