RUSSIA. Yakutia. Magaras. July 11, 2021.

As many villagers have done recently, Maria Nogovitsina made an offering to the earth to keep the fires away: she tore up a few Russian-style pancakes and sprinkled the ground with fermented milk. “If we don’t have the forest, we don’t have life. We heat with wood, even though we live in the 21st century.” Maria Nogovitsina said. "Nature is angry at us. We are not living with nature, not with the sun as we used too. We do not respect nature as our ancestors used to.