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 few days before Christmas, Ukraine dispatched a series of attack drones hundreds of miles into Russian territory.

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

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

When the ball drops in New York City’s Times Square to herald the start of 2025, it’ll actually be late to the party as ...

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 ...

Finland says a ship affiliated with Russia's "shadow fleet" is linked to a 60-mile-long anchor drag mark on the seafloor. A ...

Germany should commit to increasing its defence spending to a sum equivalent to 3% of gross domestic product, the chief ...

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 ...