bliny

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bliny - Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream

battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack, hot cake, hotcake, pancake, griddlecake - a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

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The most characteristic food of Maslenitsa is bliny thin pancakes or crepes, made from the rich foods still allowed by the Orthodox tradition that week: butter, eggs and milk.

Russian people celebrates Maslenitsa in a big joy

In Slavic mythology, Maslenitsa is a sun festival, celebrating the imminent end of the winter.The most characteristic food of Maslenitsa is bliny (Russian pancakes), popularly taken to symbolize the sun.

Pancake Week starts in Kyrgyzstan

Under his birth name, Isidor Feinstein, Stone was given the undercover name "bliny" or pancake and asked to supply tidbits of information and to recruit or identify other possible agents or informants.

Spies and journalists: taking a look at their intersections: Moscow recruited journalists for their access, insights and confidential information

The pre-Lenten festival required bliny [pancakes], so bliny recipes he would provide.

National cuisine and nationalist politics: V. F. Odoevskii and "Doctor Puf," 1844-45

[Ketchian] The Russian word here is bliny, which is often translated as "pancakes," although bliny resemble crepes as much as, if not more, than they do pancakes.