It was full here before the pandemic, he says regretfully. Only director Alexander Goncharov is sitting behind two screens in the office that day. There is nothing to indicate that one of Russia's greatest export successes is being created at these desks in an inconspicuous two-story building: the computer-animated television series “Masha and the Bear” has been produced here by the private studio Animaccord for years.īusiness correspondent for Russia and the CIS based in Moscow. There are colorful beanbags around, a guitar and a balancing board, self-painted pictures and fairy lights hang on the walls. An open-plan office in the north of Moscow: creative chaos reigns supreme.