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Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem

Russian pop star who criticised Ukraine war says she is in Israel

Alla Pugacheva pictured in 2018
Alla Pugacheva pictured in 2018. She asked to be added to the ‘foreign agents’ list along with her husband. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

The Russian pop singer Alla Pugacheva has said she is in Israel, three weeks after she publicly criticised Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine when Moscow declared her husband a “foreign agent”.

“I thank my multimillion army of fans for their love and support, for the ability to distinguish truth from lies,” the 73-year-old, known as the “queen of Soviet pop music”, said in an Instagram post on Monday.

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