Another Crack in the Wall -

Comin' Down by the 'Fall'

The Russian 'Madonna' is the latest to smash at the wall ....

Alla Pugacheva, one of Russia’s biggest pop stars has issued a scathing condemnation of the war in Ukraine and she reported that the government may ostracize her for doing it.

Pugacheva, who has been a huge star in Russia for decades, said in an Instagram post on Sunday that the invasion of Ukraine had made Russia a "pariah," and was making the lives of Russian citizens “extremely difficult.” Her post also followed the government's decision on Friday to classify her husband, the Russian celebrity Maxim Galkin, as a foreign agent after he publicly criticized the war.

The singer, whose celebrity in Russia is similar in many ways to Madonna in the U.S. for her multi-decade longevity and quasi-satirical critique of national culture, used the social media platform to declare that she and her husband wanted peace, prosperity and freedom of speech in Russia—as well as “an end to the death of our children for illusory aims.”