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

Other attractions in this city are Kok Tobe, a hillside park with a museum, a mini zoo and a small theme park, Panfilov Park ...

Father Vasyl Diychuk, 41, shows the spot near the river where his village used to build an ice town on Epiphany, celebrated ...

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On January 2, according to the new style, Orthodox Christians celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. This is a time of ...

The Ukrainian soldiers arrived in Greece with marks of war - one with a head scar, another with both legs amputated above 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 ...

The Very Rev. Protopresbyter Robert Buczak, Christ the Saviour Cathedral pastor, holds an Icon containing a relic of St.

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Snow fell on New Year's Day in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Dramatic footage shows vehicles clearing fresh ice from the roads on January 1. A yellow hazard level was issued in the northern capital, ...