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 ...

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 ...

Fourth animation about Gena and Cheburashka. Gena finds out that Cheburashka is unable to read. Luckily, the next day is September 1, the first day of school, and Gena decides to take Cheburashka to ...

First animation about Gena and Cheburashka. Gena the Crocodile works as a zoo animal at an urban zoo. Every evening, he returns home to his lonely apartment. Gena gets very tired of playing chess ...

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 ...

Cheburashka and Gena the crocodile will join paintings, drawings and decorative art works at an auction of Russia and Soviet art of the 20th century. The original puppets that played the main “parts” ...

In recent months, members of the State Duma and prominent Russian conservatives have turned against one of the central figures of Soviet childhood — Cheburashka. This apparently ridiculous culture war ...

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 ...

Will Cheburashka find his way back to Russia? (Public domain) MOSCOW, April 13, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- He has delighted generations of Russian children, but now Cheburashka, a cuddly cartoon character with ...