Since it’s that time of year again, readers with (or without) an interest in the Soviet Union could use recommendations for Soviet cartoons to watch over the holidays that are the antithesis of the ...

It’s not something you’d see in an old Warner Bros. cartoon: a mommy rabbit going into labor and giving birth, depicted with anatomical correctness. That was the high point of “Krtek” (“The Mole”), ...

Are you hankering for a night of classical music and communist cartoons? Good, because the Brooklyn Philharmonic will perform the original soundtracks to six Soviet-era cartoons — while the animated ...

Russian officials are calling on parents to show their children Soviet-era cartoons instead of Western television shows. Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on March 29 that Soviet-era ...

STORRS – Has Cold War sentiment thawed sufficiently to allow a clear-eyed look at the art produced in the Soviet Union from 1919 through the 1980s, art that was meant to move the people there to get ...

Legendary Soviet childrens writer and creator of the USSRs 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 ...

The Pokemon Go game is taking the world by storm, and although it officially launched in Russia only today, July 18, Russian users have already joined in the fun. And Russian officials have already ...

Eduard Uspensky, the Russian writer of children's books who created a cast of hugely popular characters, including the big-eared, cuddly bear-like Chebarushka and the kindly Crocodile Gena, has died.

MOSCOW (AP) — Fyodor Khitruk, the creator of the Soviet Union's animated version of A.A. Milne's classic Winnie the Pooh tales, has died in Moscow. He was 95. The Russian Animated Film Association ...