The Epiphany - one of the twelve main Orthodox holidays - is celebrated by Russia▓s Orthodox Church and believers throughout the country. Churches bless the waters and the more valiant take a dive into holes in the ice.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree on sending a Russian military contingent to Chad and the neighboring Central African Republic in support of a UN mission in the region, the Kremlin said on Monday.
Russian newspapers on Tuesday hailed a victory for Moscow after the European Union froze talks on closer ties until Russian troops withdraw from Georgia but stopped short of imposing economic sanctions.
Russia`s Pacific Fleet, Naval Aviation and coastal defense troops have launched a joint exercise off the Far East`s Kamchatka Peninsula, a spokesman for the fleet said on Tuesday.
Fidel Castro said Havana owed no apologies to Washington over reports that Russia might start flying long-range bombers to Cuba, and warned that his country "had nerves of steel in times of genocide".
Police have seized 15 kg of heroin from two drug couriers in the Istra district to the west of Moscow, a police spokesman said on Monday.
Russia is to end its zero-tolerance drunk-driving law and allow motorists to have a small drink before taking the wheel, a road-safety official said Friday.
Spanish police have arrested 20 people in raids against a major Russian mafia gang, officials have said.
The accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks is facing a military judge in his long-awaited first public appearance before a war-crimes tribunal.
World chess star turned political activist Garry Kasparov told world news industry leaders Tuesday that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had assaulted press freedoms in Russia, and urged them to challenge Kremlin leaders over the issue.
A bizarre sex scandal involving a top motor sports official and the prostitute wife of a British spy has raised urgent questions about the screening procedures employed by the MI5 security service.
Thousands of travelers were left stranded Friday morning after workers went on strike at five Norwegian airports. Talks between their union and the country`s civil aviation authority Avinor failed to result in a settlement.
All 11 remaining members of a Russian doomsday cult on Friday left the cave they had been living in since October, a regional official told local news agencies.
Two Russian Il-76 airplanes are to deliver 60 metric tons of humanitarian aid to Myanmar on Thursday, as the Southeast Asian country attempts to recover from a cyclone that has left some 100,000 people dead and thousands homeless, an emergencies spokesperson said.
The widow of Alexander Litvinenko, who died of radioactive poisoning in London in November 2006, said Wednesday she hopes the mystery of his death will be solved under the new Russian president.
Pope Benedict will text message thousands of young Catholics on their mobile phones during World Youth Day in Sydney in July, hoping going digital will help him connect better with a younger audience.
Russia said on Monday it had closed a weapons-grade plutonium reactor as part of a deal with the United States to reduce the risk of proliferation from Cold War-era nuclear bomb plants.
A court in East Siberia has extended the custody of Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky at the Chita detention center until August 2, a lawyer for the former oligarch said on Monday.
A Moscow court has sentenced a US pastor to more than three years in jail for illegally importing hunting rifle ammunition into Russia.
Detectives are investigating extraordinary claims by a former KGB double-agent who alleges he was poisoned by a Russian assassin at his secret safe-house in Surrey.
Fourteen more members of a Russian doomsday cult emerged on Tuesday from the remote underground bunker where they had been holed up for six months awaiting the end of the world.
A shepherd is suing Russia`s space agency for compensation after he said a 10-foot-long chunk of metal from a space rocket fell into his yard, just missing his outdoor toilet.
A lawyer for a purported Russian arms dealer said Monday his client had not committed any crime "anywhere in the world," adding that he would beat U.S. allegations that he tried to supply arms to Colombian rebels.
Children whose parents spank them or otherwise inflict physical punishment may be more likely to have sexual problems later, according to research to be presented Thursday to the American Psychological Association.
Serb Justice Minister Dusan Petrovic signed Thursday an extradition request for former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic`s family currently living in Russia.