Cheburashka, a fun, furry, fictional animal with large ears that are as big as his head, is celebrating his 50th birthday. Join RBTH as we explore some interesting trivia behind one of Russia’s most ...

Within nine days of its January 1 wide release, the live-action/animated hybrid feature Cheburashka became the highest-grossing local film in Russian box office history. A few days later, it passed ...

Editor’s Note: This article was published in partnership with Artsy, the global platform for discovering and collecting art. The original article can be seen here. In America, the beloved cartoon ...

Like Mickey Mouse, his U.S. colleague, he was a leading cartoon character for millions of Soviet children. He inspired numerous jokes and even served as a symbol for the liberal intelligentsia. Today, ...

Archivbild: Ulf Mauder/dpa The Soviet cartoon character Cheburashka is familiar to young and old in Russia. A new film takes advantage of this. But the character is arousing aversion among war ...

Russia’s domestic box office has a rare smash hit. “Cheburashka 2,” this year’s sequel to the 2023 live-action film adapting Soviet writer Eduard Uspensky’s beloved “animal unknown to science” (as the ...

Sixty years after Cheburashka first tumbled over an orange crate and into the imaginations of children across the Soviet Union, the creature is still looking for a place where he belongs. Russia marks ...

MOSCOW — The best-loved soundtrack of Soviet-era childhood rang with melancholy about the lost past and the unfortunate fact that birthdays come only once a year. Its star was an animated outsider — a ...