Yarin Polyakov explains New Years in Russia
January 14, 2020
Yarin Polyakov recently moved to the United States from Russia. We spoke to him about the different ways Russians celebrate winter holidays, including New Year’s Eve.
Q Do you eat any kind of cultural food?
A During New Years, we usually make, its made a dish with, on the top it has mayonnaise and kind of a salad also carrots, cucumbers usually with salt and also with mayonnaise and sometimes we did make like-kind of cookies. It has cheese onion and it’s baked for two hours in the oven
Q Does your family get together during this time of year?
A Yeah we try to but then when we moved from Russia, we usually talk with relatives on the phone, we don’t meet them. Because in our country, we tried to gather and even now we have a difference in time because of our country. US and Russia are in different continents. Maybe 8 hours so, usually, when we first meet it’s three o’clock our time and is [twelve am] in Russia
Q How is winter celebrated in Russia?
A Usually, they don’t have Christmas break. Christmas, it’s not a celebration in Russia, so it’s only the New Year. And there’s only one-week o of school, let’s say yeah, but it’s really similar. By the time the clock hits 12 and the TV shows the President give some speech some sort of speech wishing Happy New Year. Oh, yeah. e TV shows well, kind of celebrities sing songs, making jokes.
