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Со временем к СантаКону стали присоединяться другие города – в начале американские, затем – все остальные. Сегодня фестиваль Санта Клаусов проводится в сорока четырёх странах и примерно в трёхстах городах мира. Больше всего сказочных персонажей выходит на улицы Нью-Йорка, Лондона, Ванкувера, Вашингтона, Бостона, Белфаста и Москвы.
В Нью-Йорке помимо классических Санта Клаусов и сексапильных Снегурочек можно встретить северных оленей, остроухих эльфов, злобных «Гринвичей», волшебных фей, новогодние ёлочки и другие рождественские «атрибуты».
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Every year in the middle of December, exactly before Catholic Christmas, the fascinating festival Santakon comes worldwide, to take part in which, any person dressed in brightly red suit with a white edge can. For the first time large-scale street action took place in the 1994th year in San Francisco.
Over time other cities – at the beginning American, then – all others began to join Santakon. Today the festival Santa Klausov is held in forty four countries and approximately in three hundred cities of the world. Most of all fairy tale characters takes to the streets of New York, London, Vancouver, Washington, Boston, Belfast and Moscow.
In New York besides classical Santa Klausov and sexy Snow Maidens it is possible to meet reindeers, the ostroukhikh of elves, spiteful "Grinvichey", magic fairies, New Year's fir-trees and other Christmas "attributes".
Initially, a main goal of all Santakonov was collecting the charitable means going to the general "a festive copper" and to the aid of needing. For this purpose participants of a festival passed noisy crowd across numerous bars and cafe, raising money from people around. Over time the drinkable culture forced out charitable, and Santakon turned into the standard Christmas parade which is followed by cheerful revelry, fights and skirmishes with police. But it in America. Parades Santa Klausov, most often, take place in the European cities peacefully, and Fathers Frost not so much walk, how many run, trying to win a title of the fastest fairy tale character of the present.