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A New Year tree in Moscow in 2007–2008 Ded Moroz and Snegurochka in Belarus. Novy God or Noviy God (Russian: Новый Год, lit. 'New Year') is a New Year celebration observed in Russia, in post-Soviet states, and globally by the diasporas of post-Soviet states.
Boris Yeltsin's 1999 New Year Address in which he announced his resignation Dmitry Medvedev's 2008 New Year Address Vladimir Putin's 2017 New Year Address. In Russia, tuning in before midnight to watch the President's speech (Russian: новогодние обращения) has become traditional. [1]
The best-known was the New Year's Little Blue Light (Russian: Новогодний Голубой огонёк, romanized: Novogodny Goluboy ogonyok), aired on every New Year's Eve as a part of the late Soviet tradition: the Little Blue Light followed the New Year's speech by the General Secretary of the Communist Party with congratulations to ...
The leaders of Ukraine and Russia both vowed to push for victory in New Year speeches, but while Volodymyr Zelenskiy spoke of gratitude and pain, Vladimir Putin urged duty to Russia, casting the ...
The film is widely regarded as a classic piece of Russian popular culture and is traditionally broadcast in Russia and almost all former Soviet republics every New Year's Eve (Andrew Horton and Michael Brashinsky likened its status to that held by Frank Capra's 1946 It's a Wonderful Life in the United States as a holiday staple). [18]
Yahoo News visited impact sites Saturday in Kyiv. One missile scored a near direct hit on the Alfavito Hotel in the central Pecherskiy District; another struck a parking lot in the middle of a ...
The world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa, was lit up for New Year's Eve in Dubai as it rang in 2025 at 3 p.m. ET. PHOTO: Lights illuminate Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, and other ...
Since the introduction and familiarization of Russian culture during the socialist era, Mongolia has been celebrating the New Year's festivities as a formal holiday. Өвлийн өвгөн, Övliin Övgön (Grandfather Winter) is the Mongolian equivalent of Ded Moroz, who brings children and adult alike gifts on New Year's Eve. [46]