We really do have an amazing country. You record a New Year’s greeting, but your New Year comes a full nine hours after people in Russia have already started celebrating it. Anything published on Moscow time is hopelessly out of date already.
Just think: for many hours, the entire vast planet will keep turning beneath the notional point where the New Year begins—and it will still be Russia.
It’s 11 p.m. now in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Anadyr. The perfect time to start the New Year greetings.
Happy New Year, my friends! Be healthy and happy in every city and every time zone.
As for the video—well, you can play it now, or at 11:58 p.m. local time.
For me, New Year’s is a family holiday, so I recorded this at home. Not a single Kremlin wall was harmed.
I wish you, too, to welcome the New Year surrounded by the people you love. And may they never be parted from you.