The Financial institution of Russia has issued commemorative cash that includes characters from the Russian animation collection ‘Masha and the Bear’, which has turn out to be extensively fashionable the world over over the previous decade.
The regulator introduced the issuance of a silver coin with a face worth of three rubles and base steel cash with a denomination of 25 rubles.
The three-ruble coin, which is manufactured from 925 sterling silver, is 39 millimeters throughout, and seven,000 of the commemorative cash will likely be produced. The central financial institution has issued 850,000 25-ruble cash with a shade coating, and 150,000 non-colored cash of the identical denomination.
“The coin options characters from the well-known Russian cartoon: the little woman Masha and her pal the Bear, a former circus artist,” the regulator stated in a press launch.
“They’re proven towards the background of a room within the Bear’s home, the place the cheerful and resourceful woman likes to play.”
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‘Masha and the Bear’ is an animated TV collection, which is loosely primarily based on a Russian people story of the identical identify. The plot of the cartoon focuses on the adventures of a full of life mischievous woman and her protecting guardian bear that at all times retains her protected from disasters.
The pilot episode was launched in 2009 and the fifth season premiered in July. The cartoon has turn out to be internationally famend. It has been translated into 42 languages, and bought by such media giants as NBCUniversal, Netflix, Sony Footage, Google, France TV and lots of others.
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The present’s YouTube channel has 35.7 million subscribers, whereas one of many episodes, ‘Recipe for Catastrophe’ was seen four.four billion instances, turning it into essentially the most seen non-music video on YouTube.
Earlier this 12 months, ‘Masha and the Bear’ grew to become one of the crucial globally fashionable reveals amongst its animated friends, in response to the metrics of the media analysis company Parrot Analytics.
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In 2018, The Occasions launched a weird report that described the cartoon as Kremlin propaganda for youths. The article was primarily based on an interview with an Estonian professor revealed by Finland’s Helsingin Sanomat paper the 12 months earlier than. The report claimed ‘Masha and the Bear’ was making a optimistic picture of Russia in kids’s minds and labeled the principle character as Putinesque.
This prompted a wave of social media criticism, with some accusing one in every of Britain’s oldest information retailers of reaching a brand new low in anti-Russian hysteria.
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