22:49, 15 September 2025

Chechen leadership offended by Pugacheva's words about Dudayev

Alla Pugacheva "insults the entire Chechen people" by calling Dzhokhar Dudayev a decent person, the Chechen Minister of National Policy believes. Ramzan Kadyrov followed suit by declaring Pugacheva a "traitor," recommending that she "not provoke an entire people."

As "Kavkazsky Uzel wrote, in an interview with Ekaterina Gordeeva*, Alla Pugacheva called General Dzhokhar Dudayev an intelligent and decent person and apologized to his widow for not being able to do anything to keep him alive. "I knew Dzhokhar Dudayev. He was such a decent, decent, intelligent person. A beautiful person," Pugacheva said, in particular. Today it became known that lawyer and veteran of the military operations in Afghanistan Alexander Treshchev filed a lawsuit in a Moscow court against the singer for 1.5 billion rubles, considering her words about Dudayev "an insult to the army".

Dzhokhar Dudayev - Major General of Aviation, who led the movement for Chechnya to secede from the Soviet Union, Supreme Commander-in-Chief during the First Chechen War. He was killed on April 22, 1996 near the village of Gekhi-Chu. According to one version, when Dudayev contacted State Duma deputy K.N. Borovoy, the signal from his satellite phone was detected, which allowed Russian aviation to launch a targeted homing missile. Dudayev left behind three children (a daughter and two sons). Wife - Alla Fedorovna Dudayeva, daughter of a Soviet officer, artist, poetess (literary pseudonym - Aldest), publicist. Author of the books "Million and First: Dzhokhar Dudayev" (2002) and "Chechen Wolf: My Life with Dzhokhar Dudayev" (2005), co-author of the collection "Ballad of Jihad" (2003), as stated in the biographical note of the "Caucasian Knot" about Dzhokhar Dudayev.

Two of the leaders of Chechnya responded to Alla Pugacheva's words about Dzhokhar Dudayev today - first the Minister of National Policy, External Relations and Information Akhmed Dudayev, and then personally the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov.

Akhmed Dudayev called Pugacheva's statement about Dzhokhar Dudayev "provocative" and the singer herself a "traitor." In his video commentary, he verbosely criticized all those who left Russia, calling them "rats." He called Dudayev a "terrorist," placing all the blame for the destruction of Chechen settlements and the deaths on him.

"She insults the entire Chechen people. (...) Being imbued with hatred for the Russian Federation, she allowed herself to make such provocative statements that insult the entire Chechen people," he said, commenting on Pugacheva's words.

Soon after Akhmed Dudayev's publication, Ramzan Kadyrov also published his commentary on Alla Pugacheva's words. He declared the singer not only a "traitor," but also an "enemy of the people."

"First of all, we should ask the Chechens themselves about what Dudayev was like and what benefit he brought. His general's ambitions, posturing and disregard for the real problems of the Chechen people led to a sharp increase in banditry and complete financial decline," Kadyrov wrote, recommending that Pugacheva "not provoke an entire nation."

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