Burning fire marks the end of the winter in Russia

Spectators watch the burning of a twenty-meter high structure built of wood pallets, meant to represent the Bastille fortress, the symbol of the 1789 French Revolution, as Russians celebrate Maslenitsa, the eastern Slavic Shrovetide in the village of Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga, March 9, 2019. [Photo: AFP/ Mladen ANTONOV]