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 ...

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 ...

Instead of obsessing over the fictional Cheburashka, Russians should be focused on more important things like the rebirth of a Russian empire, influential conservatives say. By Alexander Nazaryan ...

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 ...