Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin have been gently lampooned in a new year's cartoon broadcast on Russian TV.
President Medvedev is depicted playing an accordion while Mr Putin beats a tambourine against his bottom.
Channel One television broadcast the cartoon after Mr Medvedev's official new year address.
Konstantin Ernst, the channel's director, told the New York Times the two men were being added to the regular cast of Mult Lichnosti (a play on the Russian for "cult of personality") - a biweekly show poking fun at public figures.
"We have to be careful," he told the newspaper. "You can insult someone in show business, because a person like that is selling himself, and does not answer for anything else.
"Whereas the president and prime minister also represent the work they do."
Mult Lichnosti also features other world leaders. One episode of the cartoon shows Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko inflating balloons with natural gas diverted from a Russian pipeline.
Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili is seen eating his own tie.
And US President Barack Obama is depicted endlessly bouncing a basketball up and down.
