I don't know if any of you know, but I am Russian. And since the days of communism, when all religion was abolished in the USSR, the christmas holiday was moved and the appropriate traditions adopted to New Year's, to make it a celebration of the coming year and the past, rather than the birth of christ.
So... being such, this night is very important to me and is a part of a very strong tradition, even though it is a celebration of an arbitrary partition of an arbitrary dimension.
With that, I hope that all of you have a very happy new year's eve. Let us all be happy and with a drink in hand, so that we can leave the year with good memories and forget the hardships that are past.
And let us all meet the new year with our closest friends and relatives, so that we might spend it the way we began it, in good company and with good graces.
Happy new year's gang!








