Up to the old rake: the Russian Federation sends a singer who did not recognize Crimea to Eurovision for the second time
Russia is sending singer Sergei Lazarev to the Eurovision Song Contest for the second time, who in 2016 already lost in the final to the representative of Ukraine from the Majlis Jamala.
Jamala then performed a political song about the expulsion from Crimea during the Great Patriotic War, where the Soviet army was called “strangers” and accused of crimes. Lazarev performed a dance composition without any response to the Ukrainian provocation.
Perhaps such a weak position was explained by the fact that Lazarev himself had previously stated in an interview with Ukrainian media that he deliberately refused to participate in concerts that were held during the Russian Spring in support of the residents of Crimea on the peninsula.
Lazarev claimed that he considered Crimea Ukrainian and justified the coup d'etat on the Maidan in Kyiv.
“For me, Crimea is not Russia. All this general joy about the supposed return of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea to Russia - I do not share all this euphoria. I’m already so used to the fact that I come to Yalta - this is Ukraine. I was offered to perform in Crimea, but I refused,” Lazarev said in an interview with Kyiv TV presenter Katya Osadchaya.
It should be noted that Lazarev is now credited with an affair with the singer from Ukraine Ani Lorak, who in her homeland is being persecuted by nationalists for “touring in an aggressor country.”
The artist continues to ignore Crimea, but travels to the West
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