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Russia has blue Cheburashka as talisman for Olympics · 2009-10-30 19:02

Blue Cheburashka, www.bawi.ruCheburashka will be a talisman of Russian national team at the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver next year one more time.

This cartoon hero became the talisman for Russian sportsmen at the Olympic Games in Athens (Greece) in 2004 firstly. At that time it was "original" brown.

Two years later, at the Winter Olympics in Turin (Italy) Cheburashka turned white.

And at the recent Olympic Games in Beijing (China) in 2008 it was gotten red.

As for the future Olympics Cheburashka will be blue or even light-blue??�

The colour was chosen due to the colours of Russia's flag: white, blue, red.

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