The Russian political elite threatens a boycott Eurovision in Ukraine next year.
The victory of the Ukrainian Jamala in this year's Eurovision Song Contest has caused dismay among some Russian deputies and government members. Especially by the fact that the lyrics of the winning song, "1994" evokes the brutal deportation of the Crimean Tatars ordered at that time of the last century by the bloodthirsty communist dictator, Joseph Stalin.
The favorite was the Russian Sergey Lazarev and has remained in third place, exceeded in two places Ukraine, neighbor with whom Moscow maintains the worst relations in its history after wrest the Crimean peninsula and encourage armed uprising pro-Russian in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
Russian senator, Frants Klintsévich, considers that the result obtained by Jamala has nothing to do with music. "The victory in Eurovision was not Ukrainian singer Jamala of its 1944 theme, but of politics, which has defeated art", estimated yesterday Klintsévich. In his view, it can not be ruled out, because next year the event will take place in Ukraine, Russia boycott it.
So does the deputy of the Duma, Aleksei Pushkov, who has defined the Eurovision Song Contest as "a field of political battles." Pushkov heads the foreign relations committee in the Lower House and Upper makes Konstantin Kosachev, who believes even the "injustice" committed against Lazarev can put the matter even more precarious cease-fire in force in eastern Ukraine.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, wrote yesterday on Twitter that next year his country would send the controversial ultranationalist Eurovision rocker Sergei Shnurov, the group "Leningrad". "You can win or lose, but it sure Shnurov sends everyone to a place I know," Rogozin said. The singer himself has reacted to the proposal by the deputy prime minister in accepting Instagram. "I will go to the grisly European kingdom to impose the truth," says Shnurov. Some Russian publications indicate that Lazarev will have "stolen" victory.
However, in Russia there are those who have applauded the triumph of Jamala, which is Tartar and born in Kyrgyzstan, where his family was deported. The deputy of the local assembly of St. Petersburg liberal party Yabloko, Boris Vishnevsky, congratulated yesterday on his blog to the Ukrainian representative and recalled the harsh living conditions that the Crimean Tatars, like other peoples of the Soviet Union, had to endure in the Stalin era deportations. "Half of them died," recalls Vishnevsky, who claims that the official Russian channel "Rossiya" hide on Saturday during the broadcast from Stockholm the true meaning of the song, saying that the letter was about "abandoning their homes in Crimea by Tatars in search of a better life. "
The connotation Jamala theme with the current situation of the Crimean Tatars is clear. After the annexation of the peninsula by Russia, they have not ceased to denounce the worsening of their situation and frequent arrests of activists. Last month, the Russian Justice prohibited activity Medzhlis, the assembly of the Tartars, described as "extremist organ" for refusing to admit that Crimea is now Russian. They insist that the peninsula was illegally annexed and therefore still belongs to Ukraine.
