Old and young danced, sang, and marched from morning till morning in Krasnoilsk, a village in southern Ukraine close to the Romanian border, to see in the new year according to the popular Malanka tradition — sometimes referred to as the Ukrainian Mardi Gras. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service)
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