This is going to be a tricky one, but what I want is to keep traditional dress, ways of life, religion etc into the modern day. So in other words, having Russians still dress like Russians (the unique dress), live like Russians (the food, culture etc), as well as architecture (keeping traditional building styles into the modern day).
However, it has to be in a modern setting, where we are at least as technologically advanced as pre-WW1 (It doesn't have to be more advanced than that as a society). There doesn't have to be cars, planes etc, things can go differently, but it has to be modern.
How is this possible?
Edit: This also means keeping traditional values and beliefs - e.g keeping the death penalty.
Bonus points if executions are still public.