Russia has positioned a Ukrainian singer who gained the 2016 Eurovision Track Contest on its wished listing, state information companies reported Monday.
The studies stated an Inside Ministry database listed singer Susana Jamaladinova as being looked for violating a legal legislation.
The impartial information web site Mediazona, which covers opposition and human rights points, stated Jamaladinova was charged underneath a legislation adopted final 12 months that bans spreading so-called faux details about the Russian navy and the continued preventing in Ukraine.
Jamaladinova, who performs underneath the stage identify Jamala, is of Crimean Tatar descent. Jamala, who carried out on the Kennedy Middle Honors in December, gained the 2016 Eurovision contest with the tune “1944,” a title that refers back to the 12 months the Soviet Union deported Crimean Tatars en masse.
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Her successful efficiency got here virtually precisely two years after Russia annexed Crimea as political turmoil gripped Ukraine. Most different nations regard the annexation as illegitimate.
Russia protested “1944” being allowed within the competitors, saying it violated guidelines in opposition to political speech in Eurovision. However the tune made no particular criticism of Russia or the Soviet Union, though it drew such implications, opening with the lyrics “When strangers are coming, they arrive to your own home, they kill you all and say ‘We’re not responsible.'”
Earlier this 12 months Jamaladinova spoke to the BBC concerning the launch of her new folks album, Qirim, saying it was her try “to offer robust voice to my homeland, to Crimea.”
“The centuries of the Russian Empire, then Soviet Union, now Russia – they did numerous propaganda to close us up. Then they advised the entire world we didn’t exist. However we all know the reality. I do know the reality. And in order that’s why for me, it is actually vital to indicate this fact via the tales behind every of the songs on this album,” she advised the BBC.
Simply final week a Russian court docket sentenced artist and musician Sasha Skochilenko to seven years in jail for swapping grocery store value tags with antiwar messages.
Skochilenko was arrested in her native St. Petersburg in April 2022 and charged with spreading false details about the navy after changing value tags with ones that decried Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.