Russian President Vladimir Putin has braved ice-cold temperatures for an Epiphany Dip in a pool outside of Moscow, according to a video and photos posted by the Kremlin press pool on Tuesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, dressed in nothing but a pair of blue swimming trunks, immersed himself in the freezing water of a cross-shaped pool near Moscow on Tuesday.

Russian Orthodox believers celebrate Epiphany by taking a dip into icy water. ... Orthodox priests conduct a service at a cross-shaped pool cut into the ice in the town of Vyshgorod, ...