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Inside Europe: Butter Week in Russia

Lucy Taylor
March 8, 2019

Temperatures in parts of Russia are still below freezing but this week, the country is celebrating the start of spring, with the traditional folk festival of Maslenitsa. The seven-day holiday is one of the country's best loved festivals, ending with the burning of a straw scarecrow as a symbol of sweeping away grudges. As Lucy Taylor reports, it is a week when you can be sure of being well-fed.

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