Maslenitsa is the favorite holiday for most Russians. As this is the last day before the 48-day fasting period, they party, eat and drink while they still can. Next to eating pancakes, there’s another tradition on this day: wall-to-wall fights. Yura organizes this year's fight as he is a professional fighter himself: ‘With Maslenitsa we celebrate the spring. And we have to fight for it, for the sun to shine!’

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