Of all the Russian holidays and traditional days, and there are many, New Year or
Novy God is perhaps the most important. Also, a holiday of at least two days: it starts on 12/31, with
Christmas, the Fourth of July, and Thanksgiving, All Rolled Into One (The New York Times, 2018).
State Funeral
Country
In 2017, you could see The Death of Stalin in theaters. More about it on
IMDB,
Filmkrant,
VPRO Cinema and
Wikipedia; trailer on
YouTube. See also
In Russia, nobody’s laughing at Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin (The Guardian, 2017).
