Maslenitsa Celebration Helps Russians Thaw From Winter

by Corey Flintoff, NPR

Sunday is the final day of a week-long Russian festival that celebrates folk traditions, heroic eating and the distant promise of spring. NPR's Corey Flintoff reports on Maslenitsa, or "pancake week," the last culinary blow-out before the austerity of Lent.

Broadcast Dates

• Weekend Edition Sunday, March 17, 2013