Comedian Maxim Galkin (known in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent) on Instagram (the owner of the Meta company is known as an extremist and is banned in Russia) posted a photo with his wife, singer Alla Pugacheva, from the Latvian city of Sigulda. The comedian, who does not know exactly when the photo was taken, wrote: “What a sunny Sunday in Sigulda today.”
The director of the singer Elena Chuprakova in a conversation with the publication “To climb” He stated that he could not comment on the singer’s departure but urged people to trust Galkin. Source TASS The artist’s close circle also confirmed that he left Moscow.
On November 2, the media reported that Pugacheva had returned to Russia. By Telegram channel plinth, came to the country alone through the border gate in the Pskov region. As eyewitnesses told the channel, Pugacheva crossing the border hid his face handkerchief. According to this ShotThe singer went to Moscow by train from Pskov, traveling in a VIP-class compartment worth about 30 thousand rubles.
Later Chuprakova approved However, his arrival in the capital did not reveal how long the artist would stay in the Russian Federation.
Pugacheva and Galkin left Russia in the spring of 2022, moving to Israel with their children – 10-year-old twins Harry and Elizabeth. Since then, the artist has visited Russia twice, in August 2022 and in May this year. Galkin after the attack on Israel by the radical Hamas movement and the outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East reported about the start of the concert tour.
later edition kp.ru He claimed that he and his children were planning to spend a year in Cyprus, referring to Pugacheva’s circle. With data From the portal, a few years ago the couple bought a penthouse in the most expensive residential complex in Limassol for € 10 million.
What did Pugacheva do in Russia?
After returning to his hometown, the singer reached his castle in the village of Gryaz near Moscow, according to Shot, which published footage of a car entering the area. Then, according to the canal, Pugacheva left the castle and went to St. He set out for St. Petersburg: on 3 November a Rolls Royce belonging to him was seen in Tver.
The shot was shot in St. Petersburg, named after Pugacheva, Shostakovich Yuri Temirkanov. The artistic director of the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic Orchestra claimed that he could attend the farewell ceremony with his conductor. This did not happen – the farewell took place in the Grand Philharmonic Hall on November 5, a few hours before Galkin published a photo from Latvia.
According to the channel, the singer visited the Salam music studio, with which he had previously worked, in Tver.
Pugacheva could record a song there, as journalists suggested, but there was no confirmation of this information.
The studio is currently closed to visitors; Sound engineer Igor Laletin, one of the founders, refused to comment on Pugacheva’s visit.
Citing a source close to the singer, Shot also claimed that the purpose of his visit might be to prepare an additional will and resolve problems with the notary. He also wanted to obtain documents related to the children, which were necessary for the family to move into their new apartment in Limassol, Cyprus, according to the channel.
Shot’s sources also suggested that she plans to help her husband have his foreign agent status revoked.
At the same time, the Mash Telegram channel cited the reason for the artist’s temporary return to Russia as a meeting with the potential buyer of the castle in Gryazi, the resolution of other issues related to the property and a visit to the doctor. Mash also reported a twofold decrease in the price of the singer’s dacha in Solnechnogorsk near Moscow: “due to the urgency” of the sale, it fell from 225 million to 100 million rubles.
Publication source mk.ru He said that the singer plans to come to Russia further:
“Pugacheva is a citizen of Russia and will always come here, despite various bad rumors. “No spiteful critic can spoil his relationship with his homeland.”
“There are no complaints about Pugacheva”
Upon Pugacheva’s arrival in Russia, members of the public organization “People’s Call” demanded that Pugacheva be brought to administrative responsibility for “public insult on the Internet” for her publications in which Russians were called “servants and slaves”. ” Social activists also demanded that he be interrogated about the financing of the Ukrainian armed forces.
Commenting on the artist’s arrival, Russian President Press Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the return of Russians to the country as well as their departure abroad is a “continuous process”.
“Any Russian citizen who is a respectable, law-abiding Russian citizen always returns freely to his homeland. <…> and he leaves it just as freely,” the Kremlin representative emphasized.
In a meeting with Vakhtang Kipshidze, Deputy Head of the Synodal Department for Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church with Society and the Media RIA News He called on Pugacheva and other Russian returnees to “apologise”. According to him, those whose departure was accompanied by “public insults” and “vague statements” should apologize.
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture Alexander Sholokhov stated “Lente.ru” said that “there are no claims against Pugacheva from the point of view of the law” because she did not make statements about Russia and “acted carefully.”