Slavic festival

Slavic festival

A straw figure is burned during Maslenitsa, a traditional Slavic festival to celebrate the end of winter, at the Japanese branch of Russia's Far Eastern Federal University in Hakodate in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Feb. 11, 2023.

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