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

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

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

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

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 tradition of putting up an evergreen tree, or "yolka," to celebrate New Year's dates to the beginning of the former Soviet Union.

Russia advanced by almost 4,000 square kilometres in Ukraine in 2024, seven times more than in 2023, an AFP analysis of data ...

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

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 ...

Countries in the South Pacific Ocean are the first to ring in the New Year, with midnight in New Zealand striking 18 hours ...

As people in Asia and Australia ring in the New Year, Brits are preparing themselves for this evening’s festivities - but ...

Homeless people are a "forgotten community" over the Christmas period, a voluntary group has said. Marion Foster, who chairs ...