the procedure for recognizing Pugacheva as a foreign agent has begun – Kommersant

The head of the Federal Project on Security and Anti-Corruption, Vitaly Borodin, claims that he received a response from the Prosecutor General’s Office to his request to recognize Alla Pugacheva as a foreign agent. According to him, the prosecutor’s office will ask the Ministry of Justice to launch the appropriate procedure.

“I received a response from the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation to my appeal. The procedure for recognizing Alla Pugacheva as a foreign agent has begun; the prosecutor’s office is asking the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to recognize Pugacheva as a foreign agent. I hope the regulatory authorities will bring this matter to an end,” Mr. Borodin wrote in Telegram. He did not provide any document to support his words.

Alla Pugacheva and her husband Maxim Galkin (foreign agent) left for Israel in the spring of 2022. The showman has repeatedly publicly spoken out against Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. In September 2022, the Ministry of Justice added Maxim Galkin to the register of foreign agents. After this, Alla Pugacheva also asked to be included in this register, since she “stands in solidarity with her husband.” In December 2023 became knownthat the Investigative Committee did not initiate criminal proceedings against the singer and her husband under the article on discrediting the Russian army and returned the materials to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow. In February, Kuban State Duma deputy Dmitry Gusev called The Ministry of Internal Affairs will check whether the lock can be confiscated from artists under the new law on the property of foreign agents.

Read more about the law in the Kommersant article. “The advertising slot was closed for foreign agents”.

Laura Keffer