Russia has listed a Ukrainian singer, who gained the
Eurovision Music Contest in 2016, as a wished felony, in accordance with state media.
Jamala, whose full title is Susana Jamaladynova, is “on the wished record for felony prices,” Russian state media outlet TASS reported on Monday.
In accordance with CNN, TASS cited the search database of the Russian Ministry of Inside Affairs, which mentioned that the performer is referenced “underneath an article of the Legal Code of the Russian Federation.”
Nonetheless, the database didn’t specify the article it was referring to, in accordance with TASS.
Legislation enforcement businesses instructed TASS that it “could also be associated to the case of disseminating faux information in regards to the Russian military.”
It’s also reported that Jamala was added to a listing of Ukrainian artists who’re banned from coming into Russia for 50 years in April 2022.
In 2016, she gained the well-known Eurovision Music Contest with a tragic and controversial track. The track talked about Moscow deporting individuals from her ethnic group, the Crimean Tatars, throughout World Battle II.
Jamala shared that her great-grandmother’s story impressed her to put in writing the track, as her household and others have been deported from Crimea.
The track, named “1944,” was seen as a robust criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s army actions in Ukraine in 2014, significantly the annexation of Crimea.
Russian state media known as the track anti-Russian, and Moscow claimed it broke Eurovision guidelines.
In 2022, Ukraine gained Eurovision once more because of folk-rap group Kalush Orchestra’s track “Stefania,” which was written in regards to the frontman’s mom.
Normally, the nation that wins the Eurovision Music Contest hosts the subsequent 12 months’s occasion. Nonetheless, Ukraine could not do this due to the full-scale invasion by Russia, CNN reported.
The UK, which got here in second place, took on the accountability. After competing with different cities within the UK, Liverpool gained the bid to host the competition in Might.
Within the 2023 occasion, Sweden’s Loreen emerged because the winner. This victory made her solely the second performer to win the competitors greater than as soon as. She secured the win together with her pop ballad “Tattoo.”