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The top ten characters Russians would most like to see as the Official Mascot for the 2018 FIFA World Cup are, in Russian alphabetical order, an Amur Tiger, Bogatyr (a legendary medieval Russian figure), a wolf, a Far Eastern leopard, a firebird, an alien, a cosmonaut, a cat, a bear and a robot. This is the outcome of preferences of the 51,000 participants who took part in an online survey between 1 and 31 May 2015.

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