A stuffed toy – “sitting cross-legged, with a vacant stare on its face” – put up for sale on eBay by a young London artist has been adopted by Russian Photoshop wizards, “popp[ing] up in famous Russian paintings, riding the metro or taking instructions from a soccer coach. … Often, the images use the fox’s bizarre appearance to poke fun at figures of authority, a modern version of Soviet-era humor aimed at the powerful.”