When the Russian version of “Sesame Street” (“Ulitsa Sezam”) first aired in Russia in October 1996, there was a premiere event at a Moscow theater. The star muppet came out — Zeliboba, an 8ft ...

When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, producers, artists, writers and other creative people became involved in creating culture for what they imagined would be a new, more open society. Natasha ...

In the early 1990s just after the Soviet Union’s collapse, a PBS documentary producer was selected by a bipartisan group in Congress to bring one of America’s most iconic children’s shows to the ...