MOSCOW — Russia has positioned a Ukrainian singer who received the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest on its needed listing, state information companies reported Monday.
The reviews mentioned an Interior Ministry database listed singer Susana Jamaladinova as being hunted for violating a legal legislation.
The impartial information web site Mediazona, which covers opposition and human rights points, mentioned Jamaladinova was charged below a legislation adopted final yr that bans spreading so-called faux details about the Russian navy and the continued preventing in Ukraine.
Jamaladinova, who performs below the stage identify Jamala, is of Crimean Tatar descent. She received the 2016 Eurovision contest with the music “1944,” a title that refers back to the yr the Soviet Union deported Crimean Tatars en masse.
Her profitable efficiency got here nearly precisely two years after Russia annexed Crimea as political turmoil gripped Ukraine. Most different international locations regard the annexation as illegitimate.
Russia protested “1944” being allowed within the competitors, saying it violated guidelines in opposition to political speech in Eurovision. But the music made no particular criticism of Russia or the Soviet Union, though it drew such implications, opening with the lyrics “When strangers are coming, they come to your house, they kill you all and say ‘We’re not guilty.’”
