The Octagon discovered that the expatriate singer Alla Pugacheva began the liquidation of the last company she owned in Russia. The nominal firm “ABP” specialized in show business and received significant support from the Moscow City Hall.
Of the entire Pugacheva franchise, only shoes and bags survived.
The application for the liquidation of ABP LLC was filed on November 23, follows from the data of the Federal Tax Service database “Transparent business” (in the screenshot below – “form P15016”, this is the notice of liquidation).
It was reported that in 2010 the Radio Alla radio station operated through ABP LLC, but the concert director of Alla Pugacheva Elena Chuprakova was listed as the general director of the organization. In the late 2010s, the ABP company organized the performances of the artist. Among them is another “last” concert in 2019. As noted in documents of the Government of Moscow, the advertisement of the concert was recognized as particularly significant for society and was placed free of charge according to quotas for outdoor social advertising.
In addition, in 2015, Pugacheva tried to become a venture investor and, through ABP, acquired a 20 percent stake in the Dufrimol.Ru duty-free project, but it was never launched. ABP’s revenues were getting smaller, revenue from 2019 to 2021 decreased by 23 times – to 3 million rubles.
Primadonna’s financial results before the Ukrainian events generally showed a decline. In 2018, due to unprofitability, talent school closed – workshop of variety art “Recital”. At various times, the singer participated in projects such as Tango radio, Alla Pugacheva’s Song Theater, as well as in a number of trade startups, including AB perfumes, chips, and cocktails. Now from all franchises only Alla Pugachova shoes and bags survived (from the manufacturer Econika, which is owned by Andrey Iliopulo, Vadim Kirillov and Sergey Sarkisov).
Of the business tools, Alla Pugacheva and her husband Maxim Galkin * (included in the register of individuals-foreign agents) in Russia have only the status of an individual entrepreneur. In May 2022, Galkin * decided to close his MG Lab advertising agency, and this decision is partly explained previous crisis and pandemic.
From time to time, Alla Pugacheva is mistakenly credited with a share in the Astrakhan recreation center Karai on the Caspian Sea. According to the Kontur.Fokus database, in the 2000s, the singer was the original founder of Karai-Eco CJSC with a 40 percent share.
This is an active legal entity, but the names of its founders are hidden. There is no current contact information for Karay-Eco on the web, the site karay.ru has not been working for a long time. The buildings of the existing Karay base (bazakaray.ru) look different: its main hotel blocks are floating, unlike Karay-Eko (they were built on piles). The Karay base is under the control of the Iraida-Tour company, which has nothing to do with Pugacheva.
A representative of the Karay base confirmed to the Octagon that Karay-Eco, located in the same area, closed about seven years ago (since that time the company has not been in the register of tour operators), the facility has been resold several times, and now they themselves are resting there hosts. The same was reported by another representative of the tourism business in the region.
Not burned to the ground, but almost destroyed the bridges
After the start of Russia’s special operation in Ukraine, Alla Pugacheva with Maxim Galkin * and children Lisa and Harry left for Israel, and then moved to Latvian Jurmala. Galkin * performed in Europe with parodies, going on stage in a yellow and blue suit, and criticized the special operation on social networks. As a result, in the summer Ukraine excluded him from the list of persons threatening the national security of the country.
Pugacheva returned to Moscow at the end of the summer – allegedly by the beginning of the school year: her children were supposed to go to school on September 1.
Then the star publicly stated that she intends to “put things in order in their heads.”
However, two weeks later, on September 16, the Russian Ministry of Justice entered Galkin * into the register of foreign agents receiving Ukrainian funding. Pugacheva suggested that the department add her to this list, as she “is in solidarity with her husband, an honest, decent and sincere person, a real and incorruptible patriot of Russia.” According to her, the special military operation has “illusory goals”.
Later, the artist again flew to Israel, and in October she called her critics “serfs and slaves.” In November, photographs were published in which Alla Pugacheva was captured during a meeting in a restaurant with other emigrant showmen: Semyon Slepakov, Maxim Vitorgan, Mikhail Shats * (included in the register of foreign individuals), members of the Little Big group, rapper Noize MC * ( Ivan Alekseev; included in the register of individuals-foreign agents). The restaurant “booth” in the photo is rather cramped: they obviously didn’t rent the entire hall – they will have to save money in their new homeland.
* Included by the Russian Ministry of Justice in the list of individuals performing the functions of a foreign agent.
