MOSCOW -- Wouldn't you feel confused if your government moved Christmas Day to Dec. 21 and named it the Day of Fraternal Oscillation?

Wouldn't your eyebrows raise if you were told that the new holiday celebrates a 17th-century fratricide and the expansion of a paragraph to a half page in the most generous history textbook?

Wouldn't you feel dizzy if you saw the president of your country celebrating the new national holiday with a straight face and then telling you that from now on this is going to be the day of pride?