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Pancake day in Russia

By: Abigail Street | Blog, Russia, Other Adventures | Posted: 09 Mar 2011

In Russia they celebrate Pancake day before Lent - Just the same as in the UK - except it lasts a week and is called the Maslenitsa week. During this week they make pancakes or blinis, as they call it in Russia. There are different types of blinis: small (oladushki), big (blini), potato pancakes (draniki),...

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