A couple of days ago it was Alla Pugacheva's birthday. If earlier this date was celebrated on television as the New Year, this time it was met with silence. Pugacheva and her husband Maxim Galkin* are being written to the prosecutor's office, their performances in Russia are impossible. And not only them.
How has music censorship manifested itself at different times? How correct is it to compare the current and Soviet bans? And what did she relate more to — music or to the personalities of the performers?