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How the Yakuts also celebrate New Year in summer! (VIDEO)

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7 old Russian wedding traditions that still exist today (PHOTOS)

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Russians don't smile! Is it true? (VIDEO)

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Karavay: Slavic bread to welcome guests

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Easter 2025: Why Catholics & Orthodox Christians celebrate it on the same day

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How Russia celebrated Buddhist New Year (PHOTOS)

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Why do parishioners stand in a Russian church instead of sitting, like in Catholic churches?

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What is the most frivolous Shrovetide (Maslenitsa) rite?

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How did Russia get its flag?

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How to understand that a Russian man is in love with you?

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How to realize a Russian has become your friend?

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The Evenki from Buryatia repeat their ancestors' patterns on their faces in the photo project ‘Sewn Faces’

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Russian Travel Alphabet: Ysyakh

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Why did they hire professional mourners in Old Rus’?

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5 things you can ONLY do in Russia!

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Orthodox Epiphany: What do Russians celebrate on January 19?

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Why & how do Russians celebrate the Old New Year?

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Who are the ‘ryazhenye’?

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What is ‘Sabantuy’ and why is it celebrated all over Russia? (PHOTOS)

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Orenburg goats & shawls: 5 facts about this UNIQUE downy goat breed

10 simple ways Soviets had fun in summer (PHOTOS)

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Kolyadki: What is sung at Christmas in Russia

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Did you know that Russia has its own Halloween?

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How did ‘Chicken Ryaba’ from Russian fairy tales appear in the Paris Metro?

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8 Russian ways to cure a hangover!

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Why is early fall in Russia called ‘women's summer’?

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Did you know that, in Old Russia, people steamed in an oven?

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Women's dress code at the tsar's court: dresses in Russian style (PICS)

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How the Buddhist New Year is celebrated in Siberia (PHOTOS)

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How blue shoe covers became quintessential Russian footwear

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Why do Sakhalin islanders «feed» the sea?

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5 facts you need to know about Orthodox Christian Christmas

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New Year all year round: All New Year celebrations of different peoples of Russia

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How, when & why the zodiac wheel became popular in Russia (PICS)

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10 things a foreigner should never do in St. Petersburg

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10 things you should NEVER do in Moscow

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7 most WEIRD Russian eating habits

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Why is there a tradition of pulling people by their ears on their birthday?

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What traditions, rites & holidays were invented in the USSR in place of Orthodox Christian ones?

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From chintz to diamonds: The names Russians use for wedding anniversaries

How to weave traditional Russian belts (VIDEO)

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Why do tourists make rock pyramids?

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Russian reindeer herders celebrate their official holiday! (VIDEO)

Why do Siberians compete in breaking bones? (PHOTOS)

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Surkharbaan: How Siberia celebrates the main summer festival

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10 unique crafts of the Russian North

Pavel Kuzmichev

Could you live in a reindeer herder’s ‘chum’? (PHOTOS)

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10 amazing jewelry items made in the Russian Style (PHOTOS)

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What’s encoded in Chuvash embroidery? (PHOTOS)

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20 unofficial symbols of Russia (PICS)

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Palekh: Everything you need to know about this lacquer miniature (PICS)

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This EMBROIDERED ethnographic map of Russia is out of this world! (PHOTOS)

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What do Russians SHOUT at weddings?

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Siberia’s ‘cult of the bear’ EXPLAINED

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What’s so special about the Russian wreath?

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Who introduced the Christmas tree tradition to Russia?

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How Stalin banned Christmas and New Year’s

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Why did Russians mount crosses with ‘roofs’ on graves?

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A showcase of Soviet life: What the famous closets nicknamed ‘walls’ stored

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Khokhloma: All you need to know about the ‘gold’ painted tableware

	
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