{{Short description|Russian-language annual New Year's Eve music special}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Peaceful Lights | image = Peaceful Lights.jpg | caption = | native_name = {{Infobox name module|Russian|Мирные огоньки}} | director = {{ubl |Seryozha Rasskazov |Anatoly Svetlov}} | writer = {{ubl |Kirill Sietlov |Konstantin Alexandrov |Anatoly Perasperov}} | based_on = {{Based on|''Little Blue Light''}} | producer = {{ubl |Seryozha Rasskazov |Boris Sigalov |Boris Barabanov |Andrey Ivanov |Nataly Novak}} | starring = | narrator = | cinematography = | editing = | music = {{ubl |Sergey Adamsky |Sasha Valent}} | studio = M.O. Production | distributor = | released = {{Film date|fy=no|2023|12|31| |2024|12|31| |2025|12|31|df=y}} | runtime = {{Approx.|90 minutes}} | country = | language = Russian | budget = }} '''''Peaceful Lights'''''<ref name=":5">{{Cite AV media |url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt35250667/ |title=Peaceful Lights (2025) ⭐ 9.8 {{!}} Musical |language=en-US |access-date=2025-02-26 |via=m.imdb.com}}</ref> ({{langx|ru|Мирные огоньки|Mirnye Ogon'ki}}) is a New Year's Eve (Novy God) musical project created as an alternative to the programs shown on Russian television.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/ru/ogonki-v-berline-ne-hvataet-tolko-ally-pugacevoj/a-71187329|title="Огоньки" в Берлине. Не хватает только Пугачевой|language=ru|website=dw.com|access-date=2025-01-03|trans-title= "Lights" in Berlin. Only Pugacheva is missing}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/12/31/bez-obrashcheniia-putina|title=Без обращения Путина. Антивоенный новогодний концерт с Noize MC, «Би-2» и «АлоэВера» — яркая альтернатива «голубым огонькам» на ТВ. Но и с ней согласны не все|website=Novaya Gazeta Europe|date=2024-12-31|access-date=2025-01-03 |trans-title=Without Putin's address. Anti-war New Year's concert with Noize MC, Bi-2 and AloeVera is a bright alternative to the "blue lights" on TV. But not everyone agrees with it either.}}</ref> It is produced by volunteers, funded through crowdsourced donations,<ref name=":1" /> and broadcast on December 31 across various online platforms.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" />
Artists recorded their performances mostly in Europe. The 2024 concert included Evgeny Khavtan, Maxim Leonidov, Tatyana Lazareva,<ref name=":2" /> Teona Dolnikova,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.zvuki.ru/R/P/84181/|title=КОНЦЕРТ - Огонёк здорового человека - Звуки.Ру|language=en|website=Zvuki.ru|access-date=2025-01-03|trans-title=CONCERT - A healthy person's light - Zvuki.Ru}}</ref> and Boris Grebenshchikov.<ref name=":1" /> The 2025 concert featured Bi-2, Kasta, Noize MC, Monetochka, Aigel and other performers.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://takiedela.ru/afisha/mirnye-ogonki/|title=Альтернативный новогодний концерт «Мирные огоньки»|language=ru-RU|website=Takie Dela|access-date=2025-01-04|trans-title=Alternative New Year's concert "Mirnye Ogonki"}}</ref>
According to various estimates, the 2024 concert gathered a total of 650 thousand<ref name=":4" /> to 1.2 million viewers.<ref name="echofm.online">{{Cite web|url=https://echofm.online/documents/syomki-mirnyh-ogonkov-startovali-novyj-god-bez-shablonov-i-oficzioza|title=Съёмки Мирных огоньков стартовали: Новый год без шаблонов и официоза|language=ru|website=ЭХО|date=2024-11-20|access-date=2025-01-04|trans-title=Filming of Mirnye Ogonki has started: New Year without templates and officialdom}}</ref>
== Name == The producer of the project, Sergey Rasskazov, explains the name of the project as follows: <blockquote>"You are not alone, there are many of us" - this is the main thing we want to convey to the audience. With our concert, we want to create a sense of community for people, that they are not alone in the whole world, to give support. And this unification also helps to build a bridge between artists and the audience. Artists were no longer shown on TV, and we figured out how to bring them out to the people and return them to New Year's Eve.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=https://vc.ru/life/1658495-kak-sdelat-novogodnee-shou-zdorovogo-cheloveka-bez-pervogo-kanala-i-millionnyh-byudzhetov|title=Как сделать новогоднее шоу здорового человека без первого канала и миллионных бюджетов — Личный опыт на vc.ru|language=en|first=Anastasia|last=Morgunova|website=vc.ru|date=2024-11-17|access-date=2025-01-04|trans-title=How to make a New Year's show for a healthy person without Channel One and multi-million budgets - Personal experience on vc.ru}}</ref></blockquote>
== History == The project was started in 2023 by Sergey Rasskazov, a designer from Switzerland. According to Sergey, he himself could not find a suitable show for New Year's Eve, and began to think about creating a new one, bringing together artists who oppose the war.<ref name=":2" /> After a tweet proposing to "make a New Year's show with production no worse than on Channel One, only oppositional, with jokes about Putin, with toasts for peace, and so on," he was able to find both professional specialists to carry out the filming and donors.<ref name=":2" /><ref name="echofm.online"/> <blockquote>''"The tweet went viral, it had about 250,000 views, something like that, there were a couple of other reposts, they gathered a bunch of likes, a bunch of retweets, a bunch of reactions, and it turns out that when this idea came to me, I forced it and it went viral, there were only 2 months left, November and December"''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://podcast.ru/e/1AkX0ntY9Kf|title=Подкаст с Сергеем Рассказовым|language=ru|publisher=Immigrantkast|trans-title=Podcast with Sergey Rasskazov}}</ref></blockquote>
The first groups to agree to participate in the project were Sansara and AloeVera, and the creators of the project began to believe in its success after the actor Aleksandr Filippenko joined it.<ref name=":1"/>
For the New Year 2024, more than 10 different artists took part in the "Mirnye Ogonki" concert. They had to work under time constraints, and since the filming took place in December, it was already impossible to arrange for a number of artists to participate.<ref name="автоссылка1">{{Cite web|url=https://vot-tak.tv/84269906/mirnye-ogonki|title=«Мирные огоньки-2025». Как «ноунеймы из твиттера» пытаются объединить оппозицию, эмиграцию и оставшихся в России в Новый год|language=ru|first=Telewizja Polska|last=S.A|website=vot-tak.tv|access-date=2025-01-03|trans-title="Mirnye Ogonki-2025". How "nobodies from Twitter" are trying to unite the opposition, emigration and those remaining in Russia on New Year's Eve}}</ref>
By the New Year 2025, the organizers of "Mirnye Ogonki" had more time to prepare, which allowed them to film in 13 cities: Berlin, Vilnius, Yerevan, Tbilisi, London, Los Angeles and others. The list of participants expanded: Bi-2, Kasta, Noize MC, Monetochka, Dmitry Nazarov, AloeVera and others took part in the concert. According to one of the founders of the project, Anastasia Morgunova, it was easier to negotiate with the artists, as they already knew about the project. For the first time, the show had a presenter, and the performances of the artists were connected by a common stage concept.<ref name="автоссылка1" />
== Reception == Russia-based media generally greeted the show critically. Argumenty i Fakty published an article titled "All the Scum Have Gathered," characterizing the show as a "freak show" and accusing the media promoting it of Russophobia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aif.ru/culture/person/-vse-otbrosy-sobralis-set-ocenila-alternativnyy-ogonyok-ubezhantov|title=«Все отбросы собрались». Сеть оценила альтернативный «Огонёк» убежантов|language=ru|first=Anna|last=Sablina|website=AiF|date=2024-12-19|access-date=2025-01-04|trans-title="All the scum have gathered." The network evaluated the alternative "Ogonek" of the fugitives.}}</ref> A news article on passion.ru notes the status of foreign agents of many of the concert participants, as well as reproaches for past statements by some of them in support of Ukraine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.passion.ru/news/nash-shoubiz/pochuvstvuite-atmosferu-prazdnika-sbezhavshie-iz-rossii-artisty-inoagenty-ustroili-svoi-goluboi-ogonek-19-12-2024.htm/comments|title=«Почувствуйте атмосферу праздника»: сбежавшие из России артисты-иноагенты устроили свой «Голубой огонек»|language=ru|website=passion.ru|date=2024-12-19|access-date=2025-01-21|trans-title="Feel the atmosphere of the holiday": artists-foreign agents who fled from Russia staged their own "Blue Light".}}</ref> == Participants ==
{| class="wikitable" |+ Participants ! Year ! Performers |- | 2024 | * Vasily Zorky * Sonya Shats * Varvara Shmykova * Aleksandr Filippenko * Ilya Akselrod * Maxim Leonidov * Evgeny Khavtan * Ice Hokku * Anton Dolin * Arsen Beglyarov * Igor Titov Banvivan * Teona Dolnikova * FromScratch * Maksok * OQJAV * Pinhas x Vova Sheqel * WHAT production |- | 2025 | * Bi-2 * AloeVera * Noize MC * Kasta * Dmitry Nazarov * Olga Vasilyeva * Aigel * Lyudmila Petrushevskaya * Garik Oganisyan * Vasya Oblomov * Anna Drubich * Boris Repetur * Musya Totibadze * Artur Smolyaninov * Monetochka * Irina Prikhodko * NaviBand * Javid Gagulov * Sveta Ben * Galya Chikiss * Alex Norden |}
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== External links == {{Sister project links|auto=yes}} * {{Official website}} {{Authority control}} <!-- Empty, but good to include for future expansion -->
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