I want to wish everyone on this board a happy New Year!!

[2tallbill]

I want to wish everyone on this board a Very Happy New Year!

VsevO dObrovo v NOvom Godoo!

Всего доброго в Новом Году!

[I/O]

I want to wish everyone on this board a Very Happy New Year!

Ditto.

I/O

[viking]

And the same from New York. And don't forget to watch the ball drop in Times Square. They have a new one this year that is supposed to be pretty special.

[Jet]

С новым годом!

A very happy "Year of the Rat" to everyone from FL 

[jb]

Etna is at home with a bottle of champaign and a tin of caviar, I'm in Kansas with a brand new bottle of The Glenlivet, we'll toast in the New Year on the phone.  (I may not wait till midnight to open that sucker )

I hope each and every one has a Happy New Year and a prosperous 2008.

[BC]

Etna is at home with a bottle of champaign and a tin of caviar, I'm in Kansas with a brand new bottle of The Glenlivet, we'll toast in the New Year on the phone.  (I may not wait till midnight to open that sucker )

I hope each and every one has a Happy New Year and a prosperous 2008.

Well jb, we just popped the cork here.. It's New Year in Moscow now!  Etna is probably watching ORT too so you might as well best get on the phone and crack that baby you're holding!

Cheers!

[jb]

'thaz a goooood iderrrr.

[START2]

Haven't been around for awhile but please allow me to wish all of you a very happy and healthy NEW YEAR!!!! Wife had to work today but will be home soon and then we will start our evening with a couple of traditional new years eve movies we received as gifts a few years ago. My favorite is about the guy who gets drunk on the train and ends up in the wrong apartment of a women he doesn't know. Turns out good for him in the end. Can't remember the name of the movie but has something to do with destiny or fate....... Tonight we'll cook up some lobster and filet and enjoy a bottle of Dom. MMMMMMMM..    jb, sounds like you got a head start.    HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!!!

[Rvrwind]

Happy New Year to all from the Great White North!!Called Valya earlier, she is in Moscow at our friends celebrating.
Long distance New Year, I feel your pain jb or maybe not in your condition...

[Jet]

My favorite is about the guy who gets drunk on the train and ends up in the wrong apartment of a women he doesn't know. Turns out good for him in the end. Can't remember the name of the movie but has something to do with destiny or fate.......

ирония судьбы
(the irony of fate)

Fantastic movie! The wife and I just finished watching it   

Start2 a special New Year wish from my wife to yours 

We'll be cracking open a 23yr old bottle of Jamaican Rum directly...

[Sort]

I wish my year would have both ended and started better then it have.
After being accused on Christmas day to be a sextourist and phone turned of over new years eve my end of 2007 and start of 2008 is a memory i want to forget.

But i don't want to ruin any good feeling for any of ya here on the forum.
Wish ya all a very happy new year and may love shine upon ya.

Martin
Sweden

[Shadow]

A very happy new year and good luck and fortune to all of you from Shadow and Ms Shadow 

[Son of Clyde]

My first New Year's Eve spent in a Russian nightclub.
I guess 6 am is the typical closing time?
Happy New Year RWD.

[START2]

Jet,  watched our favorite again. Man did I get some it wrong. It wasn't a train but a plane. Also, for the first time in 3 years I didn't realize I had possible to put up sub titles.  With this movie it was easy to follow along without them but so much better with. Wife says the movie is about 25 yrs. old and they are now making a sequel. She's heard that the main characters married, had kids but it didn't work out. It seems Ipolito also married Galya and they had kids. Well, they all divorced and married their old gf's and the kids from both unions somehow hook-up. Should be interesting.
  SOC, are you in UKR?

[Serebro]

My congratulations!
C Новым Годом!

[Son of Clyde]

Hi Start2,
We went to a Russian club in Baltimore and stayed until 6 am.
There were still a dozen people at the club when we left.

[BillyB]

Happy New Year!

IMO, Here's one of the best renditions of a popular song sang every New Year, "May You Always". I think Sandro, a music fanatic, would like this one too.

[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=opm1zuEHZUU[/youtube]

[SANDRO43]

IMO, Here's one of the best renditions of a popular song sang every New Year, "May You Always". I think Sandro, a music fanatic, would like this one too.

"May your acquaintances be remembered ..." as an antidote to Auld Lang Syne's "Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind ?" ? Maybe the fact that it is also in a slow-waltz rhythm was deliberate .

Thanks for the reference, BillyB, it looks as if it was taped in the mid 1960s, judging from the hairstyles .

[Lily]

From TIME Magazine, Jan. 1, 1965


    S Novym Godom


    Nothing, in Soviet doctrine, is much more reactionary than Christmas, combining as it does "bourgeois" religion with capitalist commercialism. But the New Year is something else again. For years, the Communists have emphasized this ideologically safer holiday while downgrading or disguising Christmas (which in the Russian calendar falls on Jan. 7). With beaming approval from the Kremlin, Moscow last week was feverishly preparing for the biggest, brassiest and most bountiful New Year's blowout in Communist history.


    On sale throughout Moscow were 325,000 freshly cut Siberian fir yolki (formerly Christmas but now New Year's trees), plus another 100,000 artificial trees and 200 boxcars of tinsel, lights and colored balls. Lavishly decorated trees appeared by the hundreds in restaurants, shops, public buildings and even in the Kremlin's Tainitsky Garden. State stores advertised "everything for the New Year's tree." On the streets, resplendent in long white beards and bright red suits, dozens of Grandfather Frosts exacted kopeks from the crowds.


    Holiday shoppers found an unprecedented variety of gifts-thanks to the Kremlin's ever-increasing emphasis on consumer goods. In record numbers they jammed into department stores, shops and the barnlike discount houses called "market halls." Fifty new stores opened this month for the holiday season. In the huge but usually drab GUM department store, counters were piled high with everything from Winter Fantasy perfume ($4.44 an ounce) and 400 kinds of watches to luxury food baskets at only $57. To cope with a turnover of hall-a-million customers and $11.5 million in sales during the holiday week, GUM reported that it had sharply increased its sales staff from a few hundred to nearly 3,000. Moscow's new twelve-story post office initiated helicopter service to try to deliver greeting cards, most of them bearing the same printed inscription: S Novym Godom (Happy New Year).


    To add to the liquidity of the season, the Kremlin has lifted the midnight liquor curfew, and on New Year's Eve Muscovites can get oiled until a highly reactionary 5 a.m. Hotels, coffeehouses and restaurants (there are no bars as such) are booked solid and have laid on massive spreads ($13.75 a plate at the Moskva restaurant) and lavish shows (seven different dance bands at the Ukraine). For home celebrators, 8,000 tons of fresh fruit and 1,000,000 bottles of Crimean champagne and wine have been shipped to the capital's markets, and a new state catering service called "Spring" advertised in Vechernaya Moskva that it was available for private parties, formal or informal.


    The spirit of S Novym Godom even extended to Nikita Khrushchev. Reportedly, the deposed Chairman has been granted the handsome pension of $660 a month-twice what top Soviet functionaries normally receive and has been allowed to keep his chauffeur driven Chaika limousine.