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What applies today, what is allowed, when the period ends and when the next one starts, with a month calendar.
The rules follow the common calendar of the Church of Greece, as its yearly calendars and service books set it out.
Local parishes and monasteries often keep a stricter or different typikon, especially about fish and oil. When in doubt, ask your parish priest.
There are four fasting periods: Great Lent with Holy Week, the Apostles' fast, the Dormition fast and the Christmas fast. Each period has its own pattern for each day of the week.
Outside those periods we fast on Wednesdays and Fridays, with wine and oil allowed. The twelve days of Christmas, Bright Week, the week after Pentecost and the week of the Publican and the Pharisee are fast-free.
The major feasts outrank the fast. Annunciation and Transfiguration allow fish even inside a fasting period, and 25 December, 6 January, 15 August and 28 October are fast-free.
Yes, when the day does not fall in a fasting period or a fast-free week. On those two days wine and oil are usually allowed.
It depends on the day. It is allowed on most fasting days and not during dry-food days. The result tells you what applies to the day you picked.
Local and monastic typika settle details, for example allowing fish on certain feasts. This page gives the common calendar.
Food without oil or wine: bread, pulses, fruit, vegetables and nuts, without cooking in oil.