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Russian mob stole costumes from iconic ’90s kids’ show in botched $100K ransom plot: star
Mentac (Mutant from the Russian Exiles, possessed a fifth-level brain capable of computer-like analysis, deceased) Mikhail Nikolaievitch Rasputin (A mutant who was the older brother of Colossus of the X-Men and Magik of the New Mutants. He was a former Russian cosmonaut, a superhero, a supervillain, and a presumed messiah. Deceased.)
The Red Guardian (Russian: Красный страж, Krasnyy Strazh) is the name of several fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics: Aleksey Lebedev, Alexei Shostakov, Tania Belinsky, Josef Petkus, Krassno Granitsky, Anton Ivanov, and Nikolai Kyrylenko, as well as a villainous Life Model Decoy of Shostakov.
Boris Badenov is an antagonist character in the 1959–1964 animated series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, so often appearing with his devious accomplice, Natasha Fatale, that the two are usually grouped together, as Boris and Natasha, a reference to Boris Drubetskoy and Natasha Rostova in Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
In the Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language of Vladimir Dahl, the name Kashchei is derived from the verb "kastit" – to harm, to dirty: "probably from the word "kastit", but remade into koshchei, from 'bone', meaning a man exhausted by excessive thinness".
One of the costumes of Senator Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars saga, the Gold Travel Costume, was based on the Russian national costume with kokoshnik, [7] known in the rest of Europe from the photographs taken during the 1903 Ball in the Winter Palace. Some fans of Russia at the 2018 FIFA World Cup wore simple versions of kokoshniki. [8]
Cheburashka is an iconic Russian cartoon-character who later became a popular figure in Russian jokes (along with his friend, Gena the Crocodile). According to the creator of the character, Eduard Uspensky, Cheburashka is an "animal unknown to science", with large monkey-like ears and a body resembling that of a cub, who lives in a tropical forest.
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is a fictional supervillain in the comic book series Hellboy.The character was created by Mike Mignola and John Byrne, and was based on the real life Russian mystic of the same name.