Russia:Cultural Topics

[Barbara]

"This week, from February 16 to 22, 2026, Russia celebrates #Maslenitsa
A traditional festival marking the farewell to winter and the welcome of spring, it brings families and friends together around blinis , symbols of the sun.

At the heart of the celebrations: the burning of a straw effigy, a sign of renewal.

Joy, forgiveness, and warmth await "

https://x.com/Lena___masHa/status/2024042338608120172
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Leave off the Catella, however :

https://x.com/kanyadabrian/status/2024138206334058935

[Barbara]

"Maslenitsa, day six. We keep going"

https://x.com/sashatimofeevax/status/20 ... 8374349085

[Barbara]

EXCELLENT IDEA !
Note, the MP has an icon of a Saint, perhaps St Agnes, and a print of a golden-domed Russian Church on the wall.

Where would you find THIS kind of uplifting bacground when ANY American political figure is interviewed ?

"Conservative Russian MP Vitaly Milonov (best known for the "homosexual propaganda" law) has proposed sending escorts returning from Dubai to a six-month quarantine in Siberia, where they would "cleanse themselves of filth:"

MILONOV: (my translation) "Along with our dear compatriots coming back home, or at least sort of home, we might also get the prostitutes returning. Those ragged sluts who’ve been hanging around Dubai’s bars and restaurants for years, selling their bodies in hotels and dorms all over that miserable desert place. Obviously a lifestyle like that comes with its own risks, including some pretty nasty diseases.

"So the prostitutes, and these bar tarts, should probably be processed separately and sent to some kind of special quarantine zone. You could set it up somewhere near the resorts of Krasnoyarsk region, or maybe on one of the islands in the Novosibirsk archipelago [both in Siberia].

"There, over the course of half a year, these ladies, and some gentlemen too, could engage in active physical labour, constructive physical labour, while being tested and cleansed of the filth they picked up in those camel-friendly corners of Dubai."

"Then they can return to society and join the rest of us as normal human beings again.""

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status/20 ... 7028714760