On the face of it, Masha and the Bear appears to be a children’s cartoon series like any other. Masha is a little girl who loves exploring the forest and playing with her anthropomorphised animal ...

Legendary Soviet children’s writer and creator of the USSR’s most popular cartoon characters Eduard Uspensky died in his home in the Moscow suburbs at the age of 80 late on Tuesday. Uspensky was most ...

She Animates: Soviet Female Subjectivity in Russian Animation by Michele Leigh and Lora Mjolsness. Academic Studies Press. In this enlightening, rapid-fire analysis of 20th-century Russian and Soviet ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A jolly little cartoon creature called Cheburashka that enchanted generations of Soviet children could soon return to Russia's possession if a tycoon succeeds in his bid to buy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Smith was caught in MI5 sting operation in 2021 (Metropolitan Police/AP) David Smith liked Russia. A lot. And he wasn’t shy ...

Politicians are claiming that a hit Netflix animation is Russian propaganda aimed at the ‘militarisation of children’. But it’s far from a recent problem – even the CIA has funded kids’ entertainment ...

Images released by the Soyuzmultfilm production studio show a scene from a New Year’s special episode of the Russian cult cartoon Prostokvashino, featuring a character modelled on President Vladimir ...

The sunflower has bloomed into a symbol of solidarity with Ukrainian resistance to the Russian invasion. Ukraine's national flower has been defiantly planted across from the Russian Embassy in ...