traditions

Chinese New Year 2025: How Moscow celebrates the Year of the Snake

Chinese New Year 2025: How Moscow celebrates the Year of the Snake

The festival "Chinese New Year in Moscow" is currently taking place in the capital of Russia. Muscovites and tourists are celebrating the Year of the Snake according to the Chinese calendar. The festivities include exhibitions, master classes and traditional Chinese New Year treats.

Saudi musicians to write coffee symphony

Saudi musicians to write coffee symphony

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture announced that it would run a competition called “Maazoufat Al-Qahwa Al-Saoudiyya” (Saudi Coffee Symphony), as part of the “Year of Saudi Coffee” activities

World prepares for Nowruz

World prepares for Nowruz

The UN has marked 21 March as International Nowruz Day — a celebration of spring and the connection between humans and nature. Here, we look at the similarities between, and peculiarities across, the nations that commemorate this ancient rite, National Geographic writes. Every March, 300 million people from across the world take part in celebrations that involve leaping over bonfires, performing folk music and reciting poems, cleaning every inch of their homes and eating copious amounts of home-cooked food in the process.

Love, North Caucasus style

Love, North Caucasus style

In the North Caucasus, traditional and modern expectations of relationships are more chequered than a patchwork quilt. Here’s how young couples negotiate them