Small pedantic note (and after I posted elsewhere on grammar Nazis): It isn’t a Christmas ad as the title makes clear, but New Year (Novogodnyaya skazka - New Year Fairy Tale)*. Russian Christmas is in January** so they wish you happy New Year and Christmas in that order - convenient for our Russian class as we can have our Christmas lunch in the restaurant dead season here and have no trouble booking.
*Russian fairy tales can be as Grimm as those of the German Bruder. They start really cheerfully and then get extremely grim and gory before the happy ending. In Grimm, being Germanic, there often isn’t even a happy ending.
**Russian Orthodox Church has nothing to do with that new-fangled Gregorian calendar.
