“Happy New Year,” Santa says before a missile shoots into his sleigh, causing it to explode mid-air. The scene then shifts to a military control room where a Russian serviceman and Ded Moroz ...

Russian space monitoring equipment has detected ... US’ North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has been tracking Santa Claus - Ded Moroz’s Western counterpart - since 1955.

Ded Moroz, or Grandfather Frost, who is Slavic version of Santa Claus marks his birthday ... Soviet era photographs of the Russian wizard of winter - in this photo gallery by TASS.

Authorities in the small Russian town of Irbit sparked ... Lenin was clad in a red gown resembling Ded Moroz, a bearded figure akin to Santa Claus, while Catherine the Great was adorned in a ...