TASS has prepared this factbox with background information on the history of Russia’s traditional New Year’s celebration ...

The New Year has been the most important family holiday in Russia since the Soviet era, when authorities promoted it as a ...

There are approximately 9,073,878 children aged 5-9 in Russia who may still believe in Father Frost ... minutes—or about 86.3 years—to greet all the children, light up the Christmas tree, and listen ...

The song known in English as The Carol of the Bells is widely recognized as a Christmas melody. But in the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, residents know it as Shchedryk, a work by a local composer. The ...

The tradition of putting up an evergreen tree, or "yolka," to celebrate New Year's dates to the beginning of the former Soviet Union.

As the clocks strike midnight, we Russian-speaking Israelis raise glasses of champagne and bite on a cracker smeared with ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States will send nearly $2.5 billion more in weapons to ...

The soldiers of the "Polar Bear Expedition" fought against Bolshevik forces inside Russia at the end of 1918, even as World ...

Russian missile defense systems were depicted shooting down Santa as he flew through the sky on a sleigh in a new viral short ...

Foula in Shetland, Britain's remotest permanently inhabited island, marks Christmas and New Year according to an ancient ...

"When I found out we were going to do the Christmas special, I cried of happiness," says actor Tyger Drew-Honey, who plays ...

Nolen, a longtime Bedford resident, started NH4Ukraine shortly after the country was invaded by Russia. It's an all-volunteer ...