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Bulgarian, Serbian, Romanian and Israeli performers and artistic groups took the stage at the fourth Friendship without Borders Festival, which was held in Vancouver by the Multicultural Association of Russian-speaking Compatriots of British Columbia.
The festival program included folklore concerts, fashion shows in national costumes and exhibitions and fairs of folk crafts, the website of the press service of organizations of Russian compatriots of Canada reports.
More than eight hundred guests, mainly representatives of the peoples of Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union, gathered at the festival.
According to the organizers, the popularity of Friendship Without Borders is growing both among Russian-speaking Canadians and among the indigenous population.
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The authors of the program hope that the idea of the festival will be distributed among organizations of Russian compatriots and in other regions of Canada.
Folk ensembles and children's groups consisting of Russian-speaking residents of Vancouver performed for visitors.
Note that national costumes of the peoples of the Soviet Union, created by masters in Canada, were demonstrated at the festival. Souvenirs and handicrafts could be purchased at the exhibition-fair, which also presented dishes of national cuisines of the peoples of the USSR.
Russkiy Mir
