Alla Pugacheva, 76, a legendary Russian singer dubbed the "people’s leisure artist" since the Soviet era, has directly criticized Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Katerina Gordaeva, a Russian-born ...

Alla Pugacheva, whose stardom has spanned from the Soviet era to after the Cold War, said the invasion of Ukraine had turned Russia into a “pariah.” By Anton Troianovski Russia’s defining 20th-century ...