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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW -- Aleksandr Kurlyandsky, the Russian writer and one of the creators of the popular Well, You Just Wait! cartoon series, has died at the age of 82. Kurlyandsky's relatives and friends said he ...

According to the documentary “Chuck Norris vs Communism,” Romania's state censorship actually deleted scenes from the classic Soviet cartoon “Nu Pogodi” before broadcasting it on state TV during the ...

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.