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He was a strange nameless toy, to which no one came in the store. But now he is Cheburashka, and each pooch at a meeting immediately gives him a paw.

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 ...