Notebook

Alla No More

Soviet diva bids goodbye

Alla Pugachyova has decided to officially stop performing on stage and focus on other activities. The 60-year-old veteran of Soviet and then Russian stage was popular throughout the 1980s and became something of a matriarch for the post-perestroika pop music scene in Russia. No doubt wanting to go out with a bang rather than melt into obscurity, Pugachyova held a press conference in early March to announce her goodbye tour.