Ukrainian singer Jamala, real name Susana Jamaladinova, a Crimean Tatar who won Eurovision 2016, is wanted by Russian authorities, state media reported.
In the online database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the Ukrainian artist was listed as “persecuted under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation”, but without mention of the alleged crime, reports TASS.
The Russian state agency reports that the arrest warrant may be related to “spreading falsehoods about the Russian military.”
As TASS reported, in April 2022, Jamala was included in the list of Ukrainian artists who are banned from entering Russia for 50 years.
Ukrainian singer Jamala shocked Europe in 2016 with the song “1944” about the Stalinist deportation of Tatars from her native Black Sea Crimea during World War II.
The artist’s relatives were victims of deportation in 1944.
She wrote the English text of the song herself, inspired by the memories of her great-grandmother, who was deported with five children from Crimea along with about 240 thousand other Tatars.
At the time, officials in Moscow and Crimea protested the song, which they said was intended to denigrate Russia after it illegally annexed the Ukrainian peninsula in 2014.
Source: Hot News
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