Masyanya, the mischievous and witty heroine of an animated sequence on-line, is broadly fashionable amongst Russian audio system. More than 1,000,000 individuals are subscribed to the cartoon’s YouTube channel.
However, the newest episode dedicated to the battle in Ukraine has introduced each reward and threats. Soon after the episode was printed, Russian authorities banned it and requested the cartoon’s creator, Oleg Kuvaev, to take away it from his web site as a result of it “discredits the Russian Federation’s armed forces”.
The BBC has spoken to Oleg Kuvaev, who emigrated from Russia to Israel years in the past and says “there isn’t any technique to snicker about the battle”.
Video journalist: Anastassia Zlatopolskai
