During which week-long spring festival, preceding the Lenten fast, do people eat pancakes and burn a straw effigy symbolising the end of winter?

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

Maslenitsa (Butter Week) retains pre-Christian elements and is the last chance to eat dairy and eggs before the seven-week Orthodox Lent begins.