Ded Moroz, or Grandfather Frost, who is Slavic version of Santa Claus ... by Snegurochka, or Snow Maiden, his granddaughter and helper. Soviet era photographs of the Russian wizard of winter ...

Authorities in the small Russian town ... a bearded figure akin to Santa Claus, while Catherine the Great was adorned in a blue dress traditionally associated with Snegurochka, Ded Moroz’s ...

The film's script suggests Santa is on an aerial "attack" mission towards Moscow, supposedly delivering NATO missiles as gifts. Much of the information conveyed by Russian media and government ...

NOVOSIBIRSK, November 14. /TASS/.Children and adults aged between7 and 90 keep sending their New Year wishes to Russian Father Frost requesting gifts for themselves and their loved ones.