Malanka Festival

Olena Istratii, 52, right, pours a shot of vodka after stopping for a break from celebrating the Malanka Festival on Thursday, January 14, 2016 in Krasnoilsk, Ukraine. The annual celebrations, which consist of costumed villagers going in a group from house to house singing, playing music, and performing skits, began the previous sundown, went all night, and will last until evening. "Everybody's coming from abroad for Malanka. It's a very big holiday. My mother, my grandmother, and my great-grandmother did it too. We will do everything we can so the tradition will not disappear," she says.

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Olena Istratii, 52, right, pours a shot of vodka after stopping for a break from celebrating the Malanka Festival on Thursday, January 14, 2016 in Krasnoilsk, Ukraine. The annual celebrations, which consist of costumed villagers going in a group from house to house singing, playing music, and performing skits, began the previous sundown, went all night, and will last until evening. "Everybody's coming from abroad for Malanka. It's a very big holiday. My mother, my grandmother, and my great-grandmother did it too. We will do everything we can so the tradition will not disappear," she says.