New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve, the last day of the year, according to the Gregorian calendar, is on December 31. Most Russians celebrate New Year's Eve with their families and close friends or at evening social gatherings, where many people dance, eat, drink and watch or light fireworks to mark the new year. The celebrations generally go on past midnight into January 1 (New Year's Day).
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Birthdays
Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov (December 31, 1930), a Soviet and Russian actor, probably best known for his role as a Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov in White Sun of the Desert (1969). He graduated from Theatrical School of Moscow Art Theater in 1955. Anatoly Kuznestov was honored with People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1979. He is living and working in Moscow.
Semyon L'vovich Ferdman, or Semyon Farada (1933 - 2009), a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, best known for the films The Very Same Munchhausen, Charodey, Adventures of Captain Vrungel, Formula of Love and The Garage.
Nikolay Tsiskaridze (born on 31 December 1973), a premier dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ethnically Georgian. He joined the Moscow Ballet School in 1987 and was admitted into the Bolshoi Ballet in 1991 and became the youngest person to be named a People's Artist of Russia (2001). He received the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2001 and 2003 and the Prix Benois de la Danse in 1999.
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ReplyDeleteIn 1999 V.V.Putin took over as Yeltsin resigned.
ReplyDeleteBoris Yeltsin has resigned as Russian president, taking the country and the rest of the world completely by surprise.
Mr Yeltsin made the shock announcement live on Russian television and said Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will take over as acting president, with elections now due to take place on 26 March 2000.
"I am going. I am going earlier than my established time," he said.
The 68-year-old had repeatedly said he would serve out his second and final term in office, which was meant to continue until June 2000.
Mr Yeltsin asked for forgiveness for what he called the errors of his administration, and said Russia needed to enter the new century with new political leaders.
He said: "I want to beg forgiveness for your dreams that never came true. And also I would like to beg forgiveness not to have justified your hopes."
It was an unusual admission from a man who, during his eight years as president, rarely said he was wrong.