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Holidays and festivals in Russia tend to be held on a large scale and generally focus on a mixture of the major dates in the Christian calendar combined with a healthy number of nationalist events that herald Russian victories and memorable events from the past.

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February Festivals

Defender of the Fatherland Day: as patriotic a holiday is you could expect in the Russian calendar, 23 February marks the beginning of the draft during the 1918 Russian Civil War. Today it is celebrated with military parades and is traditionally the day on which women show respect for the men in their lives with a small gift.

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June Festivals

Russia Day: peculiarly, this holiday essentially marks the day in 1990 when the Russian parliament officially declared full sovereignty and independence from the Soviet Union, or in other words, of itself. The name has been changed consistently since those Communist days but the sentiment is still the same.

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