As the clocks strike midnight, we Russian-speaking Israelis raise glasses of champagne and bite on a cracker smeared with ...
The tradition of putting up an evergreen tree, or "yolka," to celebrate New Year's dates to the beginning of the former Soviet Union.
TASS has prepared this factbox with background information on the history of Russia’s traditional New Year’s celebration ...
Organisers of New Year events in London and other areas say they're keeping a close eye on weather conditions ahead of ...
From Sydney to Vladivostok to Mumbai, communities around the world have begun welcoming 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges.
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 New Year has been the most important family holiday in Russia since the Soviet era, when authorities promoted it as a ...
Organisers of New Year events in London and other areas say they're keeping a close eye on weather conditions ahead of ...