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 ...

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

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 Soviet Union.

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

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has accused Russia of accidentally shooting down an airliner on Christmas Day in a ...

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.

Dressed in handmade costumes signifying angels, devils, shepherds and kings and singing Christmas carols, groups of volunteer performers spread across Ukraine over the festive season to bring traditio ...