Severe damage to buildings, smoke and debris were captured in a video said to be the aftermath of a Ukrainian strike on a Russian command post in Maryino, in the Kursk region on Thursday. Video credit ...

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

The year is ending with a pair of sharp messages between top advisers to Russian leader Vladimir Putin and President-elect ...

A third year of war in Ukraine drags on as the new year and the conflict's February anniversary approach. The war in 2024 saw ...

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 ...

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

Russia’s connection to the rupture of an undersea cable between Finland and Estonia is raising a new bevy of fears over the ...

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

Children of St. Innocent Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Anchorage performed their annual Nativity play on Sunday.

President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States will send nearly $2.5 billion more in weapons to Ukraine as his administration works quickly to spend all the money it has available to help Kyiv ...

"We can clearly say today that the plane was shot down by Russia," President Ilham Aliyev said in a televised statement ...