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, ...
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.