Russian pop star's war criticism stirs vigorous debate

Brave woman. I hope she doesn’t ‘commit suicide’.

Noteworthy that her comments have not been censored, nor has she been deplatformed, nor has she been cancelled, nor has she been arrested for spreading disinformation.

She is doing this in response to her husband being designated a foreign agent because of his criticism of the war.

You can’t spin this into a positive for Russian freedom of speech.

A woman with five decades of representing Russians, earning state awards and a prominence that can not be silenced without causing the state even more damage than her comments. This woman has broad popularity with the people both rich and poor alike.

She has begun a debate that will be difficult to silence, and will become more widespread in the coming days and weeks. Added to families who will never hear from their sons. fathers and brothers again and this one voice has the potential to become a torrent of opinion that does not support either Putin or the war.

Let us hope she and her husband remain safe from state agents, accidents and poisoning.

Let the debate rage and lets hope Russia can regain sanity, leave Ukraine and return to being a global citizen in good standing after making amends to the people it has harmed both Ukrainian and domestic. Putin must be jailed for life or executed as the law determines.

She is free to speak, of course, but behind the scenes there will be urgent discussions among dark figures over how to discredit and punish her. Only a question of time….

Good on her for using her platform to spread the truth to many Russians. Bob, yes, she definitely shouldn't accept any tea, coffee, breakfast, lunch, or dinner invitations from Putin.