Ukraine votes for a song about Stalin’s wartime deportation of the Tartars to represent the country at this year’s Eurovision. Dressed in Tatar traditional dress, singer Jamala, who herself belongs to the Muslim Tartar minority of Crimea, sang about her great grandmother who was deported with her children to central Asia. Photograph: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko Ukraine’s Eurovision entry takes aim at Russian oppression… …read more
Source: The Guardian
