Which week-long festival, held in February or early March, involves eating bliny (pancakes) and burning a straw effigy to bid farewell to winter?

• A Kupala Night
• B Maslenitsa ✓
• C Pokrov
• D Troitsa

Maslenitsa (Butter Week) is an ancient Slavic folk holiday that survived Christianisation and now takes place during the last week before Great Lent.