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

Russian military personnel spread joy this New Year by decorating their stations with festive garlands and New Year's trees, ...

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, December 31. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin wished prosperity and well-being to every Russian family and the entire country.

Pro-government channels broadcast a rather astonishing video of Santa Claus flying over the skies of Moscow. The images show ...

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 Irony of Fate” is a turn-of-the-year TV tradition that endures even in households that are now wary of Russian culture.

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 ...