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Monetochka was one of Russia’s most discussed pop stars. Now, like other antiwar acts in exile, she’s having to retool her career. Monetochka was one of Russia’s most discussed pop stars. Now, like ...

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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 ...

There’s a new Russian anthem for the war in Ukraine, and it is almost certainly not a banger. The new song is called “Sarmatushka” — a tribute to the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile — ...

FADEL: Pop diva Alla Pugacheva, heard here, is the latest and arguably the most famous Russian to criticize Vladimir Putin's war. NPR's Charles Maynes joins us now from Moscow. Good morning, Charles.

FILE PHOTO: Russian singer Pugacheva arrives to pay her last respects to Kobzon, a veteran Russian singer and pro-Kremlin politician, in Moscow LONDON (Reuters) - Alla Pugacheva, the queen of Soviet ...

Viola in Vilnius notes the popularity of Russian pop music in Lithuania. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building community and ...

On a dark spotlight-lit stage, a man in a long black suit, a yarmulke and a tallit slung over one shoulder fervently sings into a microphone while a dance troupe in similar, but sexier, garb twirls ...

The day singer-songwriter Manizha Sangin was supposed to headline a June music festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, she went instead to a shelter housing Ukrainian refugees. A week earlier, the ...

Russian pop diva Alla Pugacheva [Poo-gah-CHEOV-ah] is among those condemning President Putin's war in Ukraine. Her willingness to part ways with the Kremlin may hint at a larger domestic groundswell.