HOLIDAYS

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HOLIDAYS

• MASLENITSA

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This is our Time 2003

• School 1016, Moscow, Russia

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• People in Russia have their own special
  traditions. One of them is Maslenitsa the
  holiday, which lasts for a week, to say
  "goodbye" to winter. People celebrate it at the
  end, of February or at the beginning of March.
  During this holiday they celebrate the end of
  winter and the beginning of spring. In old times
  people usually cooked pancakes, had fires, burnt
  straw scarecrows of winter, they sang songs and
  danced.

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• Now during "Maslenitsa week" people always
  cook pancakes. Pancake is a symbol of sun. It is
  as round, gold and warm as the sun. Pancakes are
  served hot with sour cream, fish, caviar or
  butter sugar, honey.

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• The last day of Maslenitsa is called
  Forgiveness Day. People ask one another for
  forgiveness, invite their friends, their nearest
  and dearest to see each other. Maslenitsa is
  over. Winter gives way to spring.
• Though different countries have different
  traditions and holidays people all over the
  world know some of them. They are Easter,
  Christmas and New Year.