Overview

• Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, speaking on Radio Sputnik, urged against idealizing public figures after Alla Pugacheva praised Dzhokhar Dudayev as “decent, orderly and intellectual.”
• Pugacheva posted a brief social‑media message suggesting she would not continue the discussion, writing that her “momentary impulse to speak has gone” and that she would “leave, smiling.”
• Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov called the singer’s words “pathetic empty talk,” and minister Ahmed Dudaev said she offended hundreds of thousands who died in Chechnya.
• The interview was published on September 10 on Katerina Gordeeva’s channel, whose host is designated in Russia as a foreign agent.
• No legal measures have been reported; in May 2025 a deputy justice minister told TASS there were no grounds to recognize Pugacheva as a foreign agent.