17:03, 24 September 2025

The lawsuit against Pugacheva over her comments about Dudayev has been dismissed.

Alla Pugacheva. Video screenshot: https://vk.com/video-15780004_456244137

The Savelovsky District Court of Moscow refused to consider the lawsuit filed by lawyer Alexander Treshchev against Alla Pugacheva over her comments about Chechen separatist leader Dzhokhar Dudayev.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," in an interview with Ekaterina Gordeeva*, Alla Pugacheva called General Dzhokhar Dudayev an intelligent and decent man 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 man. A beautiful man," Pugacheva stated. State Duma Deputy Biysultan Khamzayev appealed to the head of the Ministry of Justice with a request to investigate Alla Pugacheva's statements for extremism. Lawyer Alexander Treshchev appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to investigate Pugacheva's claims for terrorism.

Dzhokhar Dudayev was an air force major general who led the movement for Chechnya's secession from the Soviet Union and served as the 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. Borov, his satellite phone signal was intercepted, allowing Russian aircraft 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. The author of the books "The Million and First: Dzhokhar Dudayev" (2002) and "The Chechen Wolf: My Life with Dzhokhar Dudayev" (2005), co-author of the collection "Ballad of Jihad" (2003), is said in the biographical note of the "Caucasian Knot" about Dzhokhar Dudayev.

The Savelovsky Court of Moscow dismissed the lawsuit of "Afghan combat veteran" Alexander Treshchev against singer Alla Pugacheva demanding 1.5 billion rubles, RBK reported today.

Treshchev indicated in his statement that in the interview the singer made statements defaming the president, the army, and law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation, while Alla Pugacheva praised Dzhokhar Dudayev, thereby, according to the plaintiff, insulting the Russian people. He asked the court to declare the information disseminated by Pugacheva "untrue and defamatory of the plaintiff as a Russian citizen, a combat veteran, and a patriot of his country, and to oblige the defendant to issue a retraction and collect compensation for moral damages," according to a press release on the court's website.

According to the case file on the Savelovsky District Court website, the court today issued a ruling dismissing Treshchev's claim. The text of the ruling itself is not available on the court's website.

As a reminder, two leaders of Chechnya immediately responded to Alla Pugacheva's comments about Dzhokhar Dudayev: first, the Minister of National Policy, External Relations, and Information, Akhmed Dudayev, and then personally, the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov. Ramzan Kadyrov advised her "not to provoke an entire nation."

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/415702