Eurovision winner on Russia’s wanted list

The studies mentioned an Interior Ministry database listed singer Susana Jamaladinova as being hunted for violating a prison legislation.

The unbiased news web site Mediazona, which covers opposition and human rights points, mentioned on Monday that Jamaladinova was charged underneath a legislation adopted final 12 months that bans spreading so-called pretend details about the Russian army and the continuing preventing in Ukraine.

Jamaladinova, who performs underneath the stage title Jamala, is of Crimean Tatar descent. She received 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.

Her successful efficiency got here virtually 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 towards political speech in Eurovision.

But 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 come to your house, they kill you all and say ‘We’re not guilty’.”